Plan Overview

Initiative 1 - Sporting Conservation Council
- I. - Legislation Regarding Sporting Conservation Council
  - 1. - Pass legislation authorizing the Sporting Conservation Council
    
    1.1 - Provide a ten-year term for the Council.
    
    1.2 - Consider amending the Federal Advisory Committee Act to allow non-governmental, nonconsensus advice to federal land managers
    
    1.3 - Consider an exemption for information provided by landowners about species of concern under the Freedom of Information Act
    
    1.4 - Identify opportunities to promote cooperating agency status for state agencies
Initiative 2 - Increasing Public and Private Funding for Wildlife Conservation
Initiative 3 - Improving Wildlife Habitat Conservation
Initiative 4 - Expanding Access to Public and Private Lands
Initiative 5 - Educating, Recruiting, and Retaining Hunters
- I. - Promote Hunting Among Various Demographic Groups
- II. - Promote Hunting Through Public-Private Partnerships
Initiative 6 - Coordinating Federal, State, Tribal, and International Action
- I. - Assess Existing Lines of Coordination
  - 32. - Produce and act on a rigorous assessment of existing authorities related to hunting and game conservation
    
    32.1 - Convene an expert panel of natural resource management and legal professionals
    
    32.2 - Identify relevant authorities and craft a user-friendly compendium for use by relevant federal employees
    
    32.3 - Identify conflicting authorities and craft potential statutory and regulatory language to clarify and/or reconcile these conflicts
    
    32.4 - Develop a user-friendly compendium of relevant authorities that will be shared with federal employees and non-federal partners
    
    32.5 - Collect and update formal coordination agreements that should be established or updated
    
    32.6 - Produce a detailed proposal for a Public Land Law Review Commission
- II. - Enact Improvements
Initiative 7 - Understanding Climate Change and Wildlife Effects
- I. - Establish Lines of Communication
  - 36. - Establish an advisory relationship among federal land management agencies, state agencies and conservation organizations on climate change
    
    36.1 - Assess the potential of forests and wetlands on federal lands to sequester carbon biologically
    
    36.2 - Identify the programs and/or authorities necessary to create an insurance pool against carbon loss during sequestration contracts
    
    36.3 - Work with private sector partners to determine whether a market would exist for the proposed insurance pool
    
    36.4 - Develop mechanisms that would enable receipts from private sector insurance payments to be retained for improving or expanding wildlife species habitat
    
    36.5 - Direct revenue from future climate change initiatives such as “cap and trade” to wildlife, habitat, and conservation education
    
    36.6 - Incorporate carbon exchange rates in creating incentives for landowners to conserve habitats
- II. - Improve Data and Policy
  - 37. - Publish guidance to ensure federal agencies consider effects of climate change on wildlife, habitat and wildlife-dependent recreation
  - 38. - Refine CCSP data to describe climate effects on wildlife populations and habitats
    
    38.1 - Ensure that CCSP and other available data are made available for inclusion into the various agency management planning and decision-making processes
    
    38.2 - Develop models and forecasts that will relate climate-related changes to biological responses of at risk game species, populations, and habitats
    
    38.3 - Use expanded research partnerships with natural resource agencies to assist in the design, construction, and implementation of adaptation strategies
    
    38.4 - Analyze species requirements and habitat dependencies in relation to projections for climate change effects and impacts
    
    38.5 - Include state, university, and tribal partnerships in determining effects of climate change on at risk wildlife
    
    38.6 - Develop monitoring programs by federal biological research and management agencies for incorporating climate change effects on at risk game species, populations, and habitat
Initiative 8 - Conserving Wildlife and Developing Oil and Gas on Public Land

27.5 - Establish a speakers’ bureau for school lectures and activities

Text from the Recreational Hunting and Wildlife Conservation Plan, 2008, Page 29

Establish a speakers’ bureau for school lectures and activities, possibly drawing from parks and recreation agencies.

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27.5 - Establish a speakers’ bureau for school lectures and activities

Assessment of Status: Incomplete