Conservation Legislation

Environmental laws provide regulatory tools essential to assure that natural resource management needs are properly met across diverse ownerships, jurisdictional authorities and management agencies.  They provide legal protections, budgets and assignment of management responsibilities on the public behalf.  It is critical that lawmakers remain informed and aware of the tremendous ecological, recreational and economic values of our natural lands and waters and demand that best science and biologically sound management practices guide legislative decision making.

An important provision in environmental legislation is that public review and comment be included in the making of laws, rules and regulations.  This opportunity to voice opinion is a very important responsibility that FFI embraces with our Conservation Partners so that key laws (including the Clean Water Protection Act and Endangered Species Act) continue to provide the hard earned protections that are essential to the health of our streams, lakes, wetlands and other natural landscapes across this country.

FFI's Actions

• 7/22/2024 - Letter to Leadership of Senate and House and respective Agriculture Committees - urging them to craft a bipartisan farm bill that continues the examplary track record od innovaitve and moderinzed farm and food policy to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. 
   
• 3/31/2023 and 4/4/2023 – Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee and Letter to Interior & Environment Sub-Committee of Senate Appropriations - Two letters providing budget recommendations to agencies and specific programs generally for management of natural areas for fish, wildlife and health and function of their habitats with an emphasis on value to climate adaptation. 
   
• 3/14/2023 – Senate Leadership – Letter to Senators Schumer and McConnell urging opposition to Joint Resolutions 27 and 7 that would revise current definitions of Waters of the United States that would remove protection of small streams and wetlands under provisions of the Clean Water Protection Act.  Click here for a one-page overview.
   
• 2/28/2023 – Letter to Senate Agriculture Committee – Letter to Committee Leadership in support of the Agriculture Innovation Act. 
   
• 9/26/2022 – Letter to US Fish and Wildlife Service – Provides specific recommendations for development of mechanisms in policy to assure that compensatory mitigation for unavoidable and advers

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