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December 19, 2019 (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Today, Congress approved two legislative packages which include many strong provisions that will further conservation efforts and benefit America’s sportsmen and women. On December 16, House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey released the text of two legislative packages that together will fund the government until the end of Fiscal…

December 17, 2019 (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) voted to advance the recently introduced America’s Conservation Enhancement Act (S. 3051) out of Committee on a bipartisan voice vote. https://conta.cc/2szXSHe

On December 17, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) voted to advance the recently introduced America’s Conservation Enhancement Act (S. 3051) out of Committee on a bipartisan voice vote. In advance of the Committee’s vote on S. 3051, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) sent a letter to the Committee in support of the bill. Additionally, CSF…

Contact: Kent Keene, Lower Midwestern States Coordinator On December 7, the United States Forest Service (USFS) announced a decision to close feral swine hunting on the Mark Twain National Forest. Originally proposed as a complete closure, the USFS allowed the public an opportunity to weigh in on the proposed closure during a 60-day comment period….

By: Ellary TuckerWilliams, Inter-Mountain Western States Coordinator  On November 27, New Mexico Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard withdrew over 200 acres of Rio Grande bosque State Trust Land from an agreement with New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, disallowing hunting and trapping from occurring on the land parcel, effective immediately. In a recent press…

On December 9, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) opened a general sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), which has been recognized as the largest private lands conservation program in the United States since its inception in 1985. On a voluntary basis, the Conservation Reserve Program provides willing landowners the opportunity to receive annual…