BIRDS related term(s) National Wildlife Refuges

Bills and resolutions

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: improve administration of bird collection and management activities (see S. 137), S133 [9JA]

Animal Welfare Act: strengthen enforcement of animal fighting provisions (see S. 736), S4512 [27MR] (see H.R. 1532), H2585 [1AP]

Children and youth: protect health by ensuring that chickens and chicken products purchased for national school nutrition programs have not been fed or administered fluoroquinolone antibiotics (see H.R. 3022), H8016 [5SE]

Congaree Swamp National Park: establish (see S. 1313), S8357 [23JN] (see H.R. 2580), H5814 [24JN]

Conservation of natural resources: provide financial resources for the conservation programs of countries whose activities directly or indirectly affect cranes (see S. 128), S132 [9JA] (see H.R. 1647), H2863 [7AP]

Dept. of Agriculture: improve migratory bird management by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (see H.R. 3320), H9613 [16OC]

Dept. of the Interior: construct an education and administrative center at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Box Elder County, UT (see S. 277), S1870 [4FE] (see H.R. 512), H267 [31JA]

Endangered species: manage critical habitats of threatened species and apply resource laws on military installations in a manner compatible with demands of military readiness (see H.R. 1235), H1810 [12MR]

Endangered Species Act: anniversary (see H. Res. 480), H12920 [8DE]

Forest Service: provide suitable grazing arrangements to persons holding grazing permits adversely affected by willow flycatcher and Yosemite toad restrictions (see S. 1111), S6978 [22MY] (see H.R. 2395), H5088 [9JN]

Great Lakes Fishery Commission: investigate effects of migratory birds on sustained productivity of stocks of fish of common concern in the Great Lakes (see H.R. 2500), H5467 [17JN]

Hunting and trapping: clarify restrictions on baiting of migratory game birds on or over manipulated regrowth of a harvested rice crop (see H.R. 1537), H2585 [1AP]

———modify hunting seasons for migratory mourning doves in the Pacific Flyway Region (see H. Con. Res. 90), H1746 [11MR]

Letters

Congaree National Park Act: Alan Front, Trust for Public Land (organization), S8360 [23JN]

———Angela Viney, South Carolina Wildlife Federation, S8361 [23JN]

———Dana Beach, South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, S8361 [23JN]

———Daniel L. Tufford, Columbia Audubon Society, S8360 [23JN]

———Dell Isham, Sierra Club, South Carolina chapter, S8360 [23JN]

———John E. Frampton, South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources, S8360 [23JN]

———LaBruce S. Alexander, Friends of Congaree Swamp (organization), S8361 [23JN]

———Michael T. Dawson, River Alliance (organization), S8361 [23JN]

Critical habitats of protected species designation relative to military readiness and conservation of protected species: Richard B. Myers, Joint Chiefs of Staff, S6813 [21MY]

Strengthen enforcement of Animal Welfare Act animal fighting provisions: several Representatives, H6637 [14JY]

———Wayne Pacelle and Mimi Brody, Humane Society of the U.S., H6638 [14JY]

Remarks in House

Animal Welfare Act: strengthen enforcement of animal fighting provisions, E2332 [19NO]

———strengthen enforcement of animal fighting provisions funding, H6635-H6638 [14JY]

———strengthen enforcement of animal fighting provisions (H.R. 1532), H2475 [31MR]

Dept. of Agriculture: condemn payment of compensation to individuals possessing birds, for the purpose of fighting, relative to outbreak of Exotic Newcastle Disease, H2475 [31MR]

Dept. of Defense: exemption from certain environmental regulations, H4389, H4394, H4395 [21MY], H4607, H4609 [22MY]

Foster, Max and Verda: California Poultry Federation Pioneer Award recipients, E1858 [23SE]

Hunting and trapping: modify hunting seasons for migratory mourning doves in the Pacific Flyway Region (H. Con. Res. 90), E430 [12MR]

———prohibit funding for prosecution of individuals for killing migratory birds on seeded rice lands, H7078 [17JY]

Storm, Scot: Federal Duck Stamp Contest winner, E2295 [14NO]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: development of voluntary guidelines to protect migratory birds from being killed by power lines, H7025, H7026 [17JY]

———Hackensack, NJ, Meadowlands project funding, H6959 [16JY]

Remarks in Senate

Animal Welfare Act: strengthen enforcement of animal fighting provisions funding, S14013 [5NO]

———strengthen enforcement of animal fighting provisions (S. 736), S4527 [27MR]

Congaree Swamp National Park: establish (S. 1313), S8360 [23JN]

Conservation of natural resources: provide financial resources for the conservation programs of countries whose activities directly or indirectly affect cranes (S. 128), S159 [9JA]

Dept. of the Interior: construct an education and administrative center at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Box Elder County, UT (S. 277), S1882 [4FE]

Endangered species: modify requirements applicable to limitation on designation of critical habitat for protected species relative to military readiness and conservation of protected species, S6810-S6815 [21MY], S6925, S6928 [22MY], S14792 [12NO]

Forest Service: provide suitable grazing arrangements to persons holding grazing permits adversely affected by willow flycatcher and Yosemite toad restrictions (S. 1111), S6994 [22MY]

Little Rock, AR: Audubon Nature Center funding, S11820, S11821 [23SE]

New York: goose population control funding, S14146 [6NO]

Rhode Island: eliminate avian influenza in poultry, S14015 [5NO]