Conservation Groups Unravel Controversy on Litigation Payouts

Conservation groups are gathering behind a Boone and Crockett Club-initiated push to resolve decades of controversy over legal challenges against the US Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and other federal conservation agencies. A joint letter from many of the nation's top wildlife, sporting and…

conservation organizations is circulating this week to lawmakers in Washington D.C. The letter urges support and co-sponsorship for the bipartisan bill H.R. 2919--The Open Book on Equal Access to Justice Act. The bill was introduced jointly by four members of Congress--two Republican and two Democratic.