Sage-Grouse Letter Sent to Department of Interior
On January 24, The Wildlife Society, along with other conservation and sportsmen organizations, sent a letter to the Department of Interior (DOI) encouraging the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to include management practices and protections identified by BLM?s Sage-Grouse National Technical Team 2011 report in future Environmental Impact Statements being prepared to revise and amend appropriate Resource Management Plans across the range of the greater sage-grouse. The letter, addressed to Secretary Ken Salazar, applauded the initiative of DOI and BLM in incorporating published scientific research in their report and went on to state that using the best available science to direct federal, state, and local conservation efforts ensures that sage-grouse are conserved on both private and public lands.
Clean Water Act Sign-on Sent to President Obama
Over the past two years, the Obama administration has conducted a comprehensive internal, interagency, and public process to clarify the reach of the Clean Water Act in a manner that is both legally and scientifically sound. This process entailed extensive legal, scientific, and economic analysis, as well as an unprecedented degree of stakeholder and public involvement.
While commending the efforts of the administration, The Wildlife Society together with conservation and sportsmen organizations and resource managers nationwide, sent a letter to President Obama urging him to follow through by finalizing the guidance and launching the formal rulemaking that is badly needed to provide clarity and certainty to land owners, developers, conservationists, and state and federal agencies alike. Recent surveys have shown overwhelming public support for agency action that begins restoring Clean Water Act protections for the nation?s wetlands and streams.
Request for National Summit on Climate Change
With significant increases in damage to both private and publics lands due to climate-driven weather extremes, The Wildlife Society and other science-based conservation organizations sent a letter to President Obama respectfully requesting that a national summit addressing climate change be convened. The summit would be designed to identify policies and actions that can be taken by each Federal agency and by state and local governments to address the causes and effects of climate change.
Some topics suggested for a national climate change summit include bolstering emergency response to climate disasters, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from land-use activities, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and black soot, coordinating climate adaptation responses, protecting carbon stores and climate refugia, maintaining benefits from high priority conservation lands, and balance alternative energy sources. The letter points out the importance of harnessing the ability of the natural world to regulate our climate and provide essential services such as filtering air and water.
Source: http://news.wildlife.org/the-wildlifer/the-wildlifer-2013-february/policy-news-9/
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