Resolution 2024-01 WHEREAS, all forest successional stages provide important wildlife habitat on federal and non-federal lands; and WHEREAS, old-growth forests are an advanced stage in forest successional development with distinct assemblages of plants and animals, environmental conditions, structural features, and ecological functions and processes; and WHEREAS, mature forests which precede old-g ...[Read More]

Resolution 2024-02 WHEREAS, for 450 million years sharks and their relatives have played a vital role in maintaining marine ecosystems by regulating the populations of prey species, preventing the collapse of lower levels in the marine food web, and controlling the overall health of the ecosystem; and WHEREAS, sharks face threats from loss of habitat due to coastal development, pollution, and clim ...[Read More]

Resolution 2024-03 WHEREAS, the recovery of multiple species designated as “endangered” or “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) 16 USC § 1531 et seq., including whooping cranes, Mexican gray wolves, California condors, Florida panthers, red wolves, wolverines, grizzly bears (Yellowstone), is threatened by an arbitrary internal U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) policy known as the McK ...[Read More]

Resolution 2024-04 WHEREAS, for generations, sovereign Tribes and Indigenous communities have wisely stewarded the natural resources of the Americas through their knowledges, cultures, and practices; and WHEREAS, for over thirty-five years, the National Wildlife Federation has supported Tribal conservation priorities; and WHEREAS, the National Wildlife Federation has called on the conservation com ...[Read More]

Resolution 2023-08 WHEREAS, the impacts of climate change are serious and are escalating for wildlife, communities, and the economy; and WHEREAS, solar renewable energy is a technologically and economically feasible solution and becoming a rapidly increasing part of our energy mix; and WHEREAS, despite some positive steps by certain states, tribes, territories, regions, cities, and localities, cur ...[Read More]

Resolution 2023-07 WHEREAS, the NWF Mission envisions “Uniting all Americans to ensure wildlife thrive in a rapidly changing world,” and WHEREAS, in 1937, Congress passed legislation entitled the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (Pittman-Robertson Act), which was the model for the Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act (Dingell-Johnson Act) passed in 1950 and amended by the Wallop-Breaux ...[Read More]

Resolution 2023-06 WHEREAS, for generations, federally-recognized, sovereign Tribes (“Tribes”) and Indigenous communities have wisely stewarded natural resources through their knowledges, cultures, and practices; and WHEREAS, Tribes have authority to manage wildlife and natural resources on lands within their jurisdiction and have shared opportunities for management on ancestral lands; and WHEREAS ...[Read More]

Resolution 2023-05 WHEREAS, climate change is an existential threat to the nation’s wildlife, ecosystems, and people; and WHEREAS, carbon pollution from burning fossil fuels to generate electricity, heat our homes, and power our transportation system is the primary contributor to climate change; and WHEREAS, the United States contributes disproportionately to global fossil fuel emissions; and WHER ...[Read More]

Resolution 2023-04 WHEREAS, the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRI), designated in 2009, currently encompasses nearly 490,350 square miles and is already one of the largest marine conservation areas in the world; and WHEREAS, proposed Marine Sanctuary designation would encompass the existing Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument and extend to the full limit of the Exclu ...[Read More]

Resolution 2023-03 WHEREAS, growing trade and travel between nations has increased the number of non-native plants, insects and other species arriving upon new lands without their natural enemies, such as predators, parasites and fungal pathogens that keep them in check on in their natural ranges; and WHEREAS, biologists travel to explore these ranges for strictly specific natural enemies of the t ...[Read More]