PUBLIC LANDS COUNCIL for PUBLIC LANDS COUNCIL

Clean Air and Water (quality) CAW

- Drought programs - Clean Air Act - Clean Water Act - Greenhouse gas reporting mechanisms (appropriations)

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

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Continuing Resolutions provisions for Agriculture, Interior, and Related Agencies. FY26 appropriations issues, including: - Agriculture - Interior & Related Agencies - Energy and Water

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

Natural Resources NAT

- BLM Grazing Regulations - USFS Grazing handbook and directives - Wildfire policy - Sage Grouse plan revisions (BLM) - Endangered Species Act revisions - Grizzly Bear Delisting - Gray Wolf Delisting - Mexican Gray Wolf ESA policy; delisting - NEPA policy, guidance and regulations - Wild Horse and Burro Act funding and implementation. H.R.1110, Grazing for Wildfire Risk Reduction H.R.281/S.316, Grizzly Bear State Management Act H.R.302, Water Rights Protection Act H.R.1301, death tax repeal H.R.1897, the ESA Amendments Act H.R.2238, Ranching Without Red Tape Act H.R.1661/S.775, Save America's Forgotten Equines Act S.140, the Wildfire Prevention Act S.211, the Resiliency for Ranching and Natural Resource Conservation Health Act S.1306, to delist the Gray wolf H.R.1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

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

Bills named: H.R. 1110 (119th), S. 775 (119th), H.R. 2238 (119th), H.R. 1301 (119th), H.R. 302 (119th), H.R. 281 (119th), H.R. 1661 (119th), S. 211 (119th), H.R. 1897 (119th), S. 1306 (119th), S. 140 (119th), H.R. 1 (119th), S. 316 (119th)

Agriculture AGR

- Farm Bill issues, including funding for EQIP, CRP, cross boundary utilization - 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 - Animal Health programs - H.R.1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

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

Bills named: H.R. 1 (119th)

Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation RES

- Conservation programs and conservation funding - BLM Conservation and Landscape Health Rule repeal - Permittee grazing issues (Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota) - NEPA policy, guidance - Land disposal language in H.R.1

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

Bills named: H.R. 1 (119th)

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

Environment/Superfund ENV

- National Environmental Policy Act, interim final rules, agency guidance. - Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act - Forest and grassland management - wildfire mitigation funding, prioritization of targeted treatment areas - Bureau of Land Management rule on Conservation and Landscape Health - recission requested.

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