Tracking Congress: The Impact of 2024 Budget Allocations on Hunters and Anglers
Appropriators in Congress recently began passing fiscal year 2024 funding bills that contain both highlights and disappointments for conservation.
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Louisiana Issues Regulations to Protect Nearshore Habitat from Menhaden Industry
In the most significant Gulf menhaden conservation outcome to date, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has approved creating a half-mile coastwide buffer prohibiting commercial netting of Gulf menhaden and increasing fish spill penalties...
Eight Ways the President Wants Congress to Invest in Conservation Next Year
Here’s what the Biden Administration is prioritizing in its fiscal year 2024 budget request.
Five Ways Lawmakers Can Write a Better Farm Bill for Conservation
PLUS: Nine direct benefits for hunters and anglers.
Has Congress Put Public Land Sales Back on the Table?
House rules could make it easier to sell or transfer federal public lands to the states, an idea broadly opposed by hunters and anglers.
TRCP’s Top Conservation Priorities for Congress in 2023
How lawmakers can build on recent conservation wins and advance habitat, access, and recreation solutions that were narrowly missed last session.
A Hunter and Angler’s Guide to the Omnibus Funding Deal
Hits, misses, and other highlights for conservation in the end-of-year government funding agreement.
Top 10 Conservation Issues of 2022 (According to You!)
TRCP members showed the most support for these legislative solutions and conservation priorities in 2022.
15 Conservation Wins We’re Proud of in 2022
Our organizational and legislative successes made possible by your support.
