ORGANIZATIONS

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Arizona Mule Deer Organization President Joins Arizona Wildlife Federation Board of Directors

Jim Lawrence, President of Arizona Mule Deer. Org (AMD), has joined the Arizona Wildlife Federation Board of Directors as the Arizona Mule Deer Organization representative.

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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

The National Audubon Society Hires Trio of Proven Conservation Leaders

The National Audubon Society is pleased to announce the addition of three new executives to the national leadership team to work with state organizations in California, New Mexico and Texas.

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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Ducks Unlimited State Leadership Visits Capitol Hill

For three days last week, more than 45 Ducks Unlimited state chairmen, senior volunteers and members of the Ducks Unlimited board of directors gathered to help advocate for federal conservation programs and funding.

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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Audubon Society Names New Board Members

The National Audubon Society is announcing the addition of three members to its national board of directors.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Ducks Unlimited Announces New Chief Conservation Officer

Ducks Unlimited (DU) has announced the hiring of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Executive Director Nick Wiley as its new Chief Conservation Officer.

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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Audubon Connecticut Awarded Program-Sustaining Grants

In an announcement made by top federal and state environmental officials, Audubon Connecticut was honored as a recipient of two grant awards from the Long Island Sound Futures Fund (LISFF).

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Indiana Audubon Hosts Fall Membership Drive

The Indiana Audubon Society is hosting a fall membership drive now through early December. Founded in 1898, the statewide organization, based in Connersville, is the oldest continually running Hoosier conservation organization.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Mass Audubon Breaks Ground for Environmental Learning Center

Mass Audubon has officially broken ground for its state-of-the art Environmental Learning Center (ELC) at Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln, a 3,700 square-foot building that will serve as the hub of the wildlife sanctuary.

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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Audubon Society Applauds Introduction of RCPP Improvement Act

David O'Neill, Audubon's chief conservation officer, this week praised the introduction of the Regional Conservation Partnership Program Improvement Act by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA).

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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

NWF Blasts Proposed Antiquities Act Measure

In a press release, the National Wildlife Federation says "the House Natural Resources Committee is considering a bill, H.R. 3990, that would be a direct assault on our national monuments and more than a century of conservation."

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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Past FWS Directors Urge Federal Employees to Support Refuge Association

Six former Directors of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, who served under Presidents Carter, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama, released a letter to current and former Service staff members urging them to consider supporting the National Wildlife Refuge Association through the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC).

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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Moore Elected AFAW President

The membership of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies elected Virgil Moore, Director of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, as its new president during AFWA's 107th Annual Meeting in Snowbird, Utah last week.

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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Bird Conservancy Asks California to Ban Public Land Neonic Use

On behalf of American Bird Conservancy (ABC), a nonprofit environmental law organization has petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission to adopt a statewide prohibition on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides in the more than one million acres of wildlife habitat under its jurisdiction.

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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Group Contends Downsizing Some National Monuments Threatens Birds

A press release from American Bird Conservancy (ABC) contends the Interior Department review of National Monument designations has produced recommendations that, if enacted, would reduce protection of important habitat for species listed under the Endangered Species Act.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Pew Trust Concerned about BLM's Sage-Grouse Recommendations

The Pew Charitable Trusts expressed concern Tuesday in the Bureau of Land Management's recommendations for changes in the management of sage grouse habitat on public lands across the West.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

ABC: Keep the Santa Ana NWR Intact

A press release from American Bird Conservancy (ABC) details its concern that portions of a border wall might be built through the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in Texas.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Indiana Audubon Hires New Director

Former Indiana Dunes State Park interpretive naturalist, Brad Bumgardner, has been selected as executive director for the Indiana Audubon Society.

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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Mike Bryant Joins the Refuge Association

The National Wildlife Refuge Association announces Mike Bryant, former Refuge Manager of the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge Complex in North Carolina, as the new the North Carolina and South Carolina Representative.

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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Environmental Justice Pioneer Ferris Joins National Audubon

The National Audubon Society has announced the appointment of Deeohn Ferris, J.D., as vice president for equity, diversity and inclusion at the venerable conservation organization.

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Wednesday, July 5, 2017

New Role for Patrick Comins in Connecticut

After nearly 18 years with Audubon Connecticut (ACT), the state office of the National Audubon Society, Patrick Comins is leaving to begin a new role as Executive Director of the Connecticut Audubon Society (CAS).

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