Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee Mark-up Today

The Senate Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies will mark-up it's bill today. This bill will include proposed funding for State and Tribal Wildlife Grants for FY10. For those states with members of the subcommitttee (list below), please send a quick email/phone message and ask your member to support $115M for state wildlife grants (increase of $40M to help combat climate change) and to reduce the match requirement for implementation projects to 75:25 (reduction in match is needed because the economic crisis has signigicantly reduced the ability of many states to provide matching funds). Thanks.


Democratic Subcommittee Members:
Senator Dianne Feinstein (Chairman) (CA)
Senator Robert C. Byrd (WV)
Senator Patrick Leahy (VT)
Senator Byron Dorgan (ND)
Senator Barbara Mikulski (MD)
Senator Herb Kohl (WI)
Senator Tim Johnson (SD)
Senator Jack Reed (RI)
Senator Ben Nelson (NE)
Senator Jon Tester (MT)


Republican Subcommittee Members:
Senator Lamar Alexander (Ranking) (TN)
Senator Thad Cochran (MS)
Senator Robert Bennett (UT)
Senator Judd Gregg (NH)
Senator Lisa Murkowski (AK)
Senator Susan Collins (ME)
Senator George Voinovich (OH)

Supporter Spotlight!

Teaming with Wildlife would like to Shine the Supporter Spotlight on Wild Virginia a grassroots non-profit organization dedicated to preserving wild forest ecosystems in Virginia's National Forests.

Wild Virginia
P.O. Box 1065
Charlottesville, VA 22902
(434) 971-1553
http://www.wildvirginia.org/

New Supporters for the Teaming with Wildlife Coalition!

The following groups joined the Teaming with Wildlife Coalition on 6/18/09.

National Parks Conservation Association-California, CA
The Nature Conservancy-California, CA
EcoLogic Landscape Design, Inc., FL
Pandion Systems, Inc., FL
SaltwaterNOW, FL
Wildwood Preservation Society, FL
Wild Virginia, VA