FEBRUARY 5, 2020 (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Today, NOAA Fisheries announced the Final Rule to Implement State Management of Private Angling for Red Snapper in the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) following two years of a highly successful exempted fishing permit (EFP) that allowed the individual states to manage their portion of the private recreational red snapper …
January 14, 2019 (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) Board of Directors welcomes four conservation leaders in 2020. These conservation leaders will champion CSF’s mission of protecting and advancing hunting, angling, recreational shooting and trapping in the halls of government.
On January 9, the Senate passed S. 3051, the America’s Conservation Enhancement (ACE) Act, by amending the bill into H.R. 925, the North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act, which passed the House in late November.
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.
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
December 12, 2019 (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Earlier today, the U.S. Senate confirmed Ms. Aurelia Skipwith to serve as the next Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on a bipartisan vote.
December 10, 2019 (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass the Coastal and Great Lakes Communities Enhancement Act (H.R. 729). This package of bills contains two priority fisheries conservation funding provisions for the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF), including the National Fish Habitat Conservation Through Partnerships Act (NFHP) and the Great …
Earlier today, the House Natural Resources Committee voted to pass two important conservation bills.
December 5, 2019 (WASHINGTON, DC) – Earlier today, the House Natural Resources Committee voted to pass the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act and the Modernizing the Pittman-Robertson Fund for Tomorrow’s Needs Act on a strong bipartisan vote, two top priority pieces of legislation for the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF).
November 27, 2019 (WASHINGTON D.C.) – On Wednesday, November 27, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, the Democratic Co-Chair of the Governor’s Sportsmen’s Caucus, signed into law S. 147, marking the most significant progress ever realized in the effort to overturn the state’s more than three-centuries old prohibition on Sunday hunting for game species.
November 21, 2019 (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Yesterday, the Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council (HSSCC) held a meeting to discuss pressing issues facing the hunting and shooting sports community, and were joined by the Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, and other senior officials from the Departments of the Interior …
