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Banning lead on public lands will undermine true conservation

The Biden administration is weighing to ban lead tackle and ammunition on National Wildlife Refuges - seen as an attack on conservation and public lands hunting and fishing.

By Gabriella Hoffman |2025-03-15T02:51:32-04:00May 19th, 2022|Comments Off

40 conservation groups issue letter condemning proposed lead ban on USFWS public lands

A group of 40 hunting and fishing groups sent a letter opposing a proposed lead tackle ban on public lands in CBD vs USFWS.

By Gabriella Hoffman |2022-03-15T17:05:46-04:00March 15th, 2022|Comments Off

Biden admin secretly negotiating away hunting access with Center for Biological Diversity in court

New court documents reveal the Biden admin may settle with a radical environment group to revoke hunting/fishing access on USFWS lands. Learn why it's dangerous on the podcast today.

By Gabriella Hoffman |2022-02-16T15:35:34-05:00February 16th, 2022|Comments Off

$1.5B in conservation funding generated by hunters, anglers in 2021

The good: $1.5B in conservation generated by sportsmen and women. The bad - ATF's creepy Valentine's Day tweet. Find out more on District of Conservation today.

By Gabriella Hoffman |2022-02-16T12:11:28-05:00February 14th, 2022|Comments Off

CBD, NRDC circulate anti-hunting petitions to USFWS and CDC

This is a ridiculous petition bordering on hysteria by radical animal-rights organizations. The Sportsmen’s Alliance will fight this petition.

By Gabriella Hoffman |2021-08-20T15:17:35-04:00August 18th, 2021|Comments Off

Bill to ban lead ammo will hurt shooting sports, conservation funding

Do Congressional Democrats want to undermine hunting and safe shooting sports activities? Should one new bill, H.R.405, pass—that could very well be the case. In Episode 144 of District of Conservation, Gabriella discusses the implications of Rep. Ted Lieu's (D-CA) House Resolution 405 which would "require the Secretary of the Interior to prohibit the use of lead ammunition on United States Fish and Wildlife Service lands, and for other purposes." Lieu is no friend to hunters. Prior to entering Congress in 2015, he received the full backing of the Humane Society. Lieu is also opposed to big game hunting and hunting with dogs. Gabriella cautions listeners [...]

By Gabriella Hoffman |2021-02-05T12:37:16-05:00February 5th, 2021|Comments Off

EP 104: Four Federal Environmental & Conservation Updates to Be Aware Of

In Episode 104 of District of Conservation, Gabriella discussed four key policy updates across the environmental and conservation space. ENVIRONMENT: Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) being praised by environmentalists for Superfund Clean-up and the establishment of the new Office of Mountains, Deserts and Plains to address abandoned mines and clean-up. CONSERVATION: The news that USFWS will fully delist the biologically recovered gray wolf in the Lower-48 by year's end and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works deliberated S. 614 (Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2019). Listen below: ### Subscribe to District of Conservation.Chip in to support [...]

By Gabriella Hoffman |2020-09-15T10:56:07-04:00September 14th, 2020|Comments Off

Pygmy rabbit rescue hops into public spotlight

The pygmy rabbit, whose size is not much bigger than a man’s hand, was thought to be nearing extinction in Washington’s Columbia basin in 2003. Since that time, wildlife officials have undertaken to save the furry critter and today some 20 of them are, so to speak, back in their native holes.

By Craig Rucker |2013-10-17T15:17:32-04:00October 14th, 2013|Comments Off

Federal regulators have bats in their belfries!

Bats are struck by blades traveling 100 to 200 mph at their tips or felled by “barotrauma,” sudden air pressure changes that explode their lungs, as explained in a 2008 Scientific American article “On a wing and low air: The surprising way wind turbines kill bats.”

By Paul Driessen |2013-04-09T10:57:57-04:00April 8th, 2013|Comments Off

Eagle killers get off scot free?

Free-market advocates have a hard time explaining that being anti-environmentalist is not the same as being anti-environment. Big Green has done such a thorough job of casting itself as nature's selfless, altruistic guardian that supporters don't even notice that their rants against "money-grubbing polluters" always end with "Send Money."

By Ron Arnold |2013-04-17T16:08:43-04:00July 19th, 2012|Comments Off