Recovering America's Wildlife Act With Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), a hunter, angler, longtime conservation champion and BHA member, has introduced legislation known as the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (S. 2372). This bipartisan bill would dedicate nearly $1.4 billion annually to fund projects by state and tribal fish and wildlife agencies that benefit both game and non-game species. In partnership with a broad coalition of organizations, businesses and fish and wildlife management agencies that make up the Alliance for America’s Fish & Wildlife, BHA is working to advance this legislation, the product of decades of hard work by devoted sportsmen and women, conservationists and business leaders. In this special episode of the Podcast & Blast, Hal talks with Sen. Heinrich about why hunters and anglers have a major stake in the conservation of habitat relied upon by a range of fish and wildlife species. Learn more and take action in support of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody this is Hal Herring backcountry hunters and anglers podcast and blast
0:04.9	I want to get a short introduction here I have I was super lucky to catch up with
0:10.5	Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico and talk with him about recovering
0:16.7	America's Wildlife Act, which is an incredibly important piece of legislation that's
0:22.0	coming up and by the time you hear this
0:25.2	podcast it'll be coming up soon will need support of American hunters and
0:30.8	fishermen and conservationists of every stripe.
0:35.0	So what I want you to do is rather than waste
0:38.0	Senator Heinrich's time defining what
0:41.0	recovering America's Wildlife Act is.
0:43.0	I want to just give it to you on this introduction.
0:46.2	So what it is, is it will supplement,
0:49.7	it will add funds to the Pittman-Robberson tax on firearms and ammunition, which was established in
0:57.5	1934, and which we've talked a lot about on this podcast, probably the single largest tool for recovering America's
1:05.4	wildlife was Pittman Robertson. It still is still bringing in record amounts of
1:10.2	money. That money comes down from the from the taxes and it comes down to the states and is distributed out for everything from
1:18.2	promotion of shooting and shooting ranges hunter safety to acquisition of critical habitat. R
1:25.0	Ringer Rangeling America's Wildlife Act of 2021.
1:29.0	And I'm going to read this from Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri's webpage because he is also promoting the
1:37.6	recovering America's Wildlife Act. So Ray Waugh is what they're going to be hearing at the acronym, the Raywa Act of 2021.
1:47.0	It will fund conservation efforts for more than 12,000 species of wildlife and plants in need of assistance by
1:54.7	providing 1.3 billion dollars in dedicated annual funding for proactive on-the-ground
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