JAMES EDMONDS

- FY25 Interior/Environment appropriations bills- U.S. House & U.S. Senate - FY25 Agriculture appropriations bills- U.S. House & U.S. Senate - FY24/FY25 budget items for USFS, BLM, USFWS, NRCS

- Farm Bill: Conservation programs, targeted grazing, risk management, industry suports - US Forest Service grazing handbooks and directives, cooperative monitoring MOU, wildfire preparedness, handbook revisions, vacant allotments, range futuring, guidance documents - BLM grazing regulations, cooperative monitoring MOU, wildfire preparedness, industry sustainability, guidance documents, policy amendments, land use plan revisions - Climate change and sustainability and effect on agriculture industry - Control and take practices for black vultures, coyotes, other predators; Depredation verification standards for Mexican gray wolves - Habitat Connectivity on Working Lands Act - H.R. 6935 Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act opposition

- Land and Water Conservation Fund, acquisitions, land transfers - Conservation program availability to private and public lands grazing managers - Bureau of Land Management Conservation and Landscape Health/Public Lands Rule - National Environmental Policy Act implementation - Permittee grazing issues (Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota) - Endangered Species Act (species specific: sage grouse, lesser prairie chicken, sage grouse, gray wolf, grizzly bear, larger Act, monarch butterfly) - wilderness and land designation bills (all western states) - BLM West-Wide Solar Plan draft programmatic EIS - revision to a variety of land use plans, including those related to sage grouse - Wild Horse and Burro adoption program, scheduled roundups, fertility control treatments - National Environmental Policy Act rulemaking (Phase II)

- National Environmental Policy Act final rule and agency-specific activities - Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act - Bipartisan Infrastructure Act and Inflation Reduction Act funding for environmental goals, including land conservation, restoration, wildlife habitat management - Bureau of Land Management rule on Conservation and Landscape Health - mitigation banking - forest and grassland management - wildfire mitigation funding, prioritization of targeted treatment areas

- Wild and Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act - wildlife conservation measures, including habitat prioritization/management of contiguous parcels - Migratory Bird Treaty Act; regulatory changes and implementation - Endangered Species Act implementation; species specific listing statuses and critical habitat designations; rulemakings - Depredation verification standards (Mexican gray wolves, gray wolves, other large predators) - depredation payments and funding allocations

- drought issues - regulatory items - Clean Water Act (Navigable Waters Protection Rule, WOTUS) - greenhouse gas emissions and reporting mechanisms

PUBLIC LANDS COUNCIL