The Wildlife Society - Wildlife Policy

Wildlife Policy

Through applying sound science to proposed wildlife conservation legislation and regulations, The Wildlife Society takes a leadership role in key federal wildlife policy issues in the United States. With its exceptional access to the expertise of thousands of professionals, TWS is uniquely qualified to develop comprehensive technical analyses of current wildlife management issues. Recent analyses have covered such timely topics as management and conservation of forests and wetlands, restoration of wolves, wildlife conservation options in agricultural policy, wildlife management in wilderness, wildlife fertility control, impacts of wind energy on wildlife, the public trust doctrine, and confinement of wild ungulates.

The TWS Government Affairs department publishes quarterly, online issues of Wildlife Policy News. Each issue features a series of articles intended to foster information exchange among Society leaders and wildlife professionals regarding policy issues.

Primary policy priorities for The Wildlife Society include:

• Federal budgets for wildlife and habitat conservation, management, research, and education.
• Development of renewable energy sources on federal lands
• Farm Bill reauthorization
• State wildlife agency nongame funding (Teaming with Wildlife)
• Endangered Species Act reauthorization
• Global climate change and wildlife
• Federal employee participation in professional societies
• Science policy for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the United States Geological Survey Biological Resources Discipline
• Wetlands conservation
• Wildlife baiting and feeding
• Wildlife diseases
• Federal land management agency planning and land-use regulations
• The North American Model and Public Trust Doctrine