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]

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]