GOP budget cuts bad for TN waterways, wildlife

April 10, 2011
Tennessean
By John Torchick

This year, a cloud hangs over the future of Tennessee's fishing and hunting. A bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives to fund the federal government for the remainder of the fiscal year, H.R. 1, went far beyond its initial purpose and became a grab bag of harmful policy provisions that undermine protections for the rivers, streams and wetlands that support Tennessee's fish and wildlife populations.