The oil and gas industry’s growing investment in conservative sportsmen groups is already yielding ever-greater influence over legislation and policy decisions that benefit the industry’s financial interests at the expense of hunters and anglers. Understanding and tracking this powerful lobbying alliance is of increasing importance to those who believe that American sportsmen can and should continue to be the standard-bearers for our nation’s conservation tradition defend the principles that have guided North American land and wildlife stewardship for more than a century. ...areas to watch are: Endangered and threatened wildlife in oil- and gas-producing regions: The case of the greater sage grouse and the lesser prairie chicken The backcountry: How the oil and gas industry and its allies are working to undo protections of roadless areas and wilderness study areas Public access and ownership: The movement to privatize public lands and wildlife ecowatch/2014/04/29/big-oil-nra-reshape-land-wildlife-policy/
Posted on: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:54:24 +0000
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