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Policy News: June 14, 2021

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US Fish and Wildlife Service reverses Endangered Species Act rules. Appeals court rules that US Fish and Wildlife Service improperly denied protections for Pacific walruses. Interior: The Biden administration suspended oil and gas leasing in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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Policy News: February 28, 2022

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Fish and Wildlife Service. She previously worked as the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks director from 2017–2020 and was an assistant professor of law at the University of Montana. The Combatting Online Wildlife Trafficking Act ( H.R 1546 ), sponsored by Rep. 3540 ), from Rep.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

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Chuck” Sams III to be director of the National Park Service. Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services.

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ESA Policy News: May 4, 2023

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Charlotte Levy (Carbon180), Cleo Chou (USAID), Brittany Marsten (NOAA), Amina Pollard (EPA), Karen Lips (NSF) and Rich Pouyat (US Forest Service emeritus) joined the GSPA cohort in the ESA office to discuss their careers as ecologists working in science and policy. Levy, Chou and Marsten all are GSPA alumni. and qualify for a green card.

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Policy News: January 31, 2022

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Conservation: The House Natural Resources Committee approved the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (H.R. billion annually to state and tribal fish and wildlife agencies for conservation and the implementation of state wildlife action plans. This bill provides a combined $1.4 Has Biden followed the science?

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Special Policy News #6: The Transition

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Legislative updates: Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) introduced the Global Amphibians Protection Act ( H.R. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Amphibians in Decline Conservation Fund. This program provided competitive grants for amphibian conservation to wildlife management authorities in forging countries. Scientific Community.

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Policy News: May 28, 2021

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The Agricultural Research Service receives $1.9 The Forest Service Forest and Rangeland Research account receives $339 million, a $49 million dollar increase over FY2022. The National Park Service receive $2.976 billion, a $300 million increase and the U.S. Richard Blumenthal introduced the Extinction Prevention Act ( H.R.

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