Dear Conservation Hero:
As the 117
th Congress prepares to address unfinished business in the waning days of the session, please SHARE YOUR ORGANIZATION’S VOICE for Pennsylvania’s fish and wildlife Species of Greatest Conservation Need by urging Senators Casey and Toomey to support floor-time and swift passage of Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (
S.2372)!
If the bill doesn’t pass by the end of this calendar year, we start over next session. We are as close to full passage as we’ve ever been since 2016 when the initial bill was introduced. Let’s do this!
This popular, bipartisan, historic legislation has already made significant strides. H.R.2773 passed the House (231-190) and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (15-5). Sponsored by Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Roy Blunt (R-MO), S.2372 is primed for passage with 42 bipartisan cosponsors–with your help we can get this over the finish line!
Contact Mechanisms
- Directly (phone):
- Senator Casey (S.2372 cosponsor – please thank!) – 202.224.6324
- Senator Toomey – 202.224.4254
- Indirectly (online form): OurNatureUSA.com
Key Points
- State fish and wildlife agencies are first responders to wildlife crises, yet lack sufficient funding.
- Recovering America’s Wildlife Act provides reliable funding at the scale needed to tackle science-based solutions.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-approved State Wildlife Action Plans are in place.
- Preventing species endangerment is more cost-effective and less burdensome than recovering species already endangered (example: the Bald Eagle recovery took 4 DECADES and hundreds of millions of dollars).
- PROACTIVE conservation is the foundational premise of Recovering America’s Wildlife Act.
- Healthy fish and wildlife populations are vital to a multibillion-dollar outdoor recreation economy, within Pennsylvania and nationally. In 2020, outdoor recreation added $11.8 billion and nearly 150,000 jobs in Pennsylvania.
THANK YOU for your enduring support and all you do, every day, for Pennsylvania’s fish and wildlife!
Yours in conservation,
