Legislation

Some of the nation’s top sportsmen’s organizations – Ducks Unlimited, the Izaak Walton League of America, the National Wildlife Federation, Trout Unlimited and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership – applaud the administration for taking an important step today to begin restoring Clean Water Act protections to streams and wetlands. These waters provide critical habitat to fish and wildlife, flood control, drinking water and many other benefits.

Now that the dust has cleared and lawmakers have come to an agreement on the federal budget for fiscal 2011, it's time to assess the damage. Let's just say it could have been worse.

Sportsmen's groups warned Wednesday that budget cuts to conservation programs proposed by the U.S. House of Representatives will hit Montana and other rural states hard.

A new report shows serious threats to South Carolina's wetlands and streams – and to its waterfowl, fish, and wildlife.

The nation's leading sportsmen-conservation groups today commended the introduction of legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would restore critical Clean Water Act protections for streams, lakes, wetlands and other important waters.

Way back in 1972, when calling yourself a "liberal" or a "conservative" didn't quite have the knee-jerk connotations it does now, Congress passed and Richard Nixon signed into law (reluctantly, after a failed veto) the Clean Water Act.