PUBLIC LANDS COUNCIL for PUBLIC LANDS COUNCIL

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

Clean Air and Water (quality) CAW

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

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

Natural Resources NAT

- BLM Grazing Regulations - USFS Grazing policies and regulations - Wildfire policies - 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 implementation of the H.R.1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

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

Bills named: H.R. 281 (119th), H.R. 1110 (119th), H.R. 302 (119th), S. 1306 (119th), H.R. 2238 (119th), H.R. 1661 (119th), H.R. 1 (119th), S. 140 (119th), H.R. 1897 (119th), H.R. 1301 (119th), S. 316 (119th), S. 211 (119th), S. 775 (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 - implementation of H.R.1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

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

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/transfer/guidance

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

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

Environment/Superfund ENV

- National Environmental Policy Act implementation, consistencies. - 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, related policy.

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