PUBLIC LANDS COUNCIL for PUBLIC LANDS COUNCIL

Budget/Appropriations BUD

- FY25 Interior/Environment appropriations bills- U.S. House & U.S. Senate - FY25 Agriculture appropriations bills- U.S. House & U.S. Senate - FY24/FY25 budget items for USFS, BLM, USFWS, NRCS

Contacted: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Interior, Dept of (DOI); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Clean Air and Water (quality) CAW

- drought issues - regulatory items - Clean Water Act (Navigable Waters Protection Rule, WOTUS) - greenhouse gas emissions and reporting mechanisms

Contacted: Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Natural Resources NAT

-Bureau of Land Management rule on Conservation and Landscape Health -BLM grazing regulations and guidance -BLM West-wide solar plan revision and draft programmatic EIS -Sage Grouse plan revision -USFS Range Futuring planning exercise -USDA Wildfire Commission Recommendations -Endangered Species Act, including species listing and habitat considerations for: gray wolf, grizzly bear, sage grouse, lesser prairie chicken, assorted desert species -Endangered Species Act rules: Sections 4, 7, 10 -Endangered Species Act take rule, practices -Migratory Bird Treaty Act amendment, funding, and species-specific issues, including black vulture and raven -National Environmental Policy Act rules and legislative revision -S.4628 - EMBER Act -H.R.8790 - Fix Our Forests Act -H.R.6441/S.3322 - Ranching Without Red Tape Act -S.4454 - Operational Grazing Flexibility Management Program Act -S.4449 - River Democracy Act -S.3593 - Truckee Meadows Public Lands Management Act -BLM Western Solar Plan Update -National Wildlife Refuge System BIDEH policy -Appropriations riders, regarding: sage grouse, bighorn sheep, grazing, research, BLM proposed rule, funding prohibitions, lesser prairie chicken -Wild and Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act funding, implementation, program revision, advisory board work -Federal Land Management and Policy Act, Taylor Grazing Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and execution of those processes for grazing activities -parochial grazing issues for federal grazing permittees - both BLM and USFS (Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nevada) -Wildlife migration corridor and legislative language proposals

Contacted: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); SENATE; Interior, Dept of (DOI); U.S. Forest Service; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

Bills named: H.R. 6441 (118th), S. 4449 (118th), S. 3593 (118th), S. 4454 (118th), S. 4628 (118th), H.R. 8790 (118th), S. 3322 (118th)

Agriculture AGR

- Farm Bill: Conservation programs, targeted grazing, risk management, industry suports - US Forest Service grazing handbooks and directives, cooperative monitoring MOU, wildfire preparedness, handbook revisions, vacant allotments, range futuring, guidance documents - BLM grazing regulations, cooperative monitoring MOU, wildfire preparedness, industry sustainability, guidance documents, policy amendments, land use plan revisions - Climate change and sustainability and effect on agriculture industry - Control and take practices for black vultures, coyotes, other predators; Depredation verification standards for Mexican gray wolves - Habitat Connectivity on Working Lands Act - H.R. 6935 Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act opposition

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); U.S. Forest Service

Bills named: H.R. 6935 (118th)

Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation RES

- Land and Water Conservation Fund, acquisitions, land transfers - Conservation program availability to private and public lands grazing managers - Bureau of Land Management Conservation and Landscape Health/Public Lands Rule - National Environmental Policy Act implementation - Permittee grazing issues (Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota) - Endangered Species Act (species specific: sage grouse, lesser prairie chicken, sage grouse, gray wolf, grizzly bear, larger Act, monarch butterfly) - wilderness and land designation bills (all western states) - BLM West-Wide Solar Plan draft programmatic EIS - revision to a variety of land use plans, including those related to sage grouse - Wild Horse and Burro adoption program, scheduled roundups, fertility control treatments - National Environmental Policy Act rulemaking (Phase II)

Contacted: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); SENATE; Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Interior, Dept of (DOI)

Animals ANI

- Wild and Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act - wildlife conservation measures, including habitat prioritization/management of contiguous parcels - Migratory Bird Treaty Act; regulatory changes and implementation - Endangered Species Act implementation; species specific listing statuses and critical habitat designations; rulemakings - Depredation verification standards (Mexican gray wolves, gray wolves, other large predators) - depredation payments and funding allocations

Contacted: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); Bureau of Land Management (BLM); Interior, Dept of (DOI); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Environment/Superfund ENV

- National Environmental Policy Act final rule and agency-specific activities - Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act - Bipartisan Infrastructure Act and Inflation Reduction Act funding for environmental goals, including land conservation, restoration, wildlife habitat management - Bureau of Land Management rule on Conservation and Landscape Health - mitigation banking - forest and grassland management - wildfire mitigation funding, prioritization of targeted treatment areas

Contacted: Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); U.S. Forest Service; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Bureau of Land Management (BLM); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Interior, Dept of (DOI)