Resolution 2025-01 WHEREAS, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) manages an unparalleled network of public lands and waters called the National Wildlife Refuge System which protects iconic species and provides some of the best wildlife viewing opportunities on Earth; and WHEREAS, The National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 and the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvemen ...[Read More]

Resolution 2025-02 WHEREAS, deep-sea mining is the process of extracting valuable metals and minerals from the ocean floor. The minerals are found in nodules, crusts, and sulphides. The International Seabed Authority (ISA) was established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to manage and control the development of all mineral resources on the seabed of the high seas. The ISA has ...[Read More]

Resolution 2025-03 WHEREAS, federal agencies such as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), National Park Service (NPS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Farm Services Agency (FSA), Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adm ...[Read More]

Resolution 2025-04 WHEREAS, the North American migratory monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus (monarch) is vital for maintaining the health and diversity of natural ecosystems throughout its extensive range, which encompasses about 48 states of the eastern and western United States; and WHEREAS, the eastern and western monarch populations’ decline serves as a pivotal ecological indicator, providing ...[Read More]

Resolution 2025-05 WHEREAS, there is a biodiversity crisis that threatens more than one-third of all species of wildlife and native plants in the United States and globally, and enacting science-based along with Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge solutions requires urgent attention so that wildlife and people can adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world; and WHEREAS, declining species ...[Read More]

Resolution 2025-06 WHEREAS, for nearly 90 years the National Wildlife Federation’s affiliate organizations have developed, submitted, debated, and ratified policy resolutions at the National Wildlife Federation Annual Meetings; and WHEREAS, science, law, statute, cultural understanding, conservation strategies, and societal perspectives have changed over those decades; and WHEREAS, over 300 resolu ...[Read More]

Resolution 2025-07 WHEREAS, the Ohio River is the largest tributary by volume of the Mississippi River, playing a critical role in the hydrology, ecology, and economy of the eastern United States; and WHEREAS, the 981-mile river provides drinking water for more than 5 million people and flows through or along the borders of six states—Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illin ...[Read More]

Resolution 2025-08 WHEREAS, in 2010, the International Maritime Organization implemented emission standards for shipping, requiring cleaner burning fuel on shipping and cruise ships. A regulatory loophole was created allowing the use of exhaust gas scrubbers as an alternative compliance mechanism to burning cleaner fuel, and cruise ships began installing exhaust scrubbers in large numbers in 2015; ...[Read More]

Resolution 2025-09 WHEREAS, neonicotinoids—a class of neuro-active insecticides—are pervasively used across North America despite being restricted in the European Union due to their harmful environmental impacts, limiting overseas commercial markets to US growers; and WHEREAS, neonicotinoids are extremely toxic to invertebrates, many of which form the base of aquatic food webs; and WHEREAS, aquati ...[Read More]

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]