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To address America’s growing budget deficit problem, Congress created a 12-member “Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction” as a way to step outside the traditional bounds of the legislative process and partisan posturing during this critical time. 

The National Wildlife Federation sees the work of the Joint Committee as an historic opportunity for Congress to set our country on a path toward a fiscally sustainable future by protecting programs that safeguard wildlife, create jobs and save lives, while also cutting environmentally harmful subsidies.

7 Conservation Investments That Work for Wildlife

1. The majestic bald eagle, a symbol of our nation, has recovered in Arizona with help from State Wildlife Grants.

2. The Blackfoot River Special Management Area in Montana has benefited significantly from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. This popular recreation destination received almost $40 million to protect wildlife including grizzly bears, wolves, lynx, and several threatened trout species.

3. Restoration of the San Francisco Bay, which provides habitat for the California brown pelican, is supported through the Environmental Protection Agency’s Geographic Programs.

4. Cape Cod National Seashore, administered by the National Park Service, is an important habitat for birds native to Massachusetts like the American kestrel, which have recently been experiencing dramatic population declines.

5. Federal funding from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service helps combat Asian carp and other invasive species. Without this funding, the health and economies of the Great Lakes will be at risk. 

6. The Bog Turtle Initiative, a program under the Wetlands Reserve Program of the Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, “is a voluntary program offering landowners the opportunity to protect, restore, and enhance wetlands on their property,” enhancing the attraction and wonder of Pennsylvania's great outdoors.

7. Several agriculture and wildlife programs have played a critical role in protecting habitat in Washington for the sage grouse, a bird species that is a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act.

To see how other conservation investments are helping wildlife, providing clean air and water, and supporting local economies, download the full report: Conservation Works: How Congress Can Lower the Deficit and Protect Wildlife & Public Health (pdf).