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Roadblocks to good wildlife management: beavers could be the answer to flooding and drought issues caused by climate change

Roadblocks to good wildlife management: beavers could be the answer to flooding and drought issues caused by climate change

With climate change transforming the American West, an industrious mammal could help mitigate some of the worst of the coming drought and flooding crises. The West is getting drier in the dry season and more prone to flooding in the wet season. Beavers could well be a relatively low-cost part of resiliency efforts. As natural ecosystem engineers, these largest-of-North-America’s rodents “increase water storage in ponds and surrounding floodplains, thus slowing winter flows, increasing riparian and meadow water availability and extending stream flow up to six weeks into dry summer seasons.”

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Op-Ed: It’s Time to Decouple Wildlife Conservation From the Gun Lobby’s Agenda

Op-Ed: It’s Time to Decouple Wildlife Conservation From the Gun Lobby’s Agenda

Op-Ed in Truthout by Wildlife for All’s Executive Director, Kevin Bixby

It’s time to get guns out of wildlife conservation.

The firearms industry and state wildlife agencies have been joined at the hip since Congress passed the Pittman-Robertson (PR) Act in 1937. The law redirected an existing federal tax on firearms and ammunition to the states to help restore depleted game populations. The model worked as intended for years, but nonhunting gun buyers have far surpassed hunters as the main source of PR Act funds. At a time of rising gun violence, when there are more guns in the U.S. than people, does it make any sense to be using public funds to encourage more gun use?

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