• Legislation and policy related to the Land and Water Conservation Fund, management of elk and elk habitat, forestry management, public lands, hunter access, the Endangered Species Act, wildlife migratory corridors, grizzly bear and gray wolf management, and chronic wasting disease. Fiscal Year 2024 and 2025 Appropriations. CWD Research and Management Act implementation. Farm Bill. S. 1149, Recovering America's Wildlife Act. H.R. 636 Forest Litigation Reform Act. H.R. 7408, America's Wildlife Habitat Conservation Act. S. 1540, a bill to reverse the Cottonwood decision. H.R. 8104 relating to wildlife corridors.

Duration: January 1, 2024 to present

General Issues: Natural Resources, Animals

Spending: about $6,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2024: