Earlier this year, the House unanimously passed the Treating Tribes and Counties as Good Neighbors Act.
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Westerman highlights a House bill supporting tribal partnerships in forest management.
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I think under RAWA you would have about $13 million a year, but you probably have the potential to generate $30 or $40 million a year to do wildlife management where you don't have something like a timber resource to pay it back.
So, it is really not about a species, it is about habitat. And this bill is focused on restoring habitat, not somehow magically waving a wand and recovering a species. It all comes back to habitat.
However, we greatly appreciate Chairman Westerman's commitment, and his passion for voluntary cooperative conservation.
But in the interest of time, the poster behind me... outlines how natural capital accounting aligns and supports DOI and BLM priorities in the Biden administration.





