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Feb 12, 2025
Contact: Susan Holmes- (202)329-1553
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, experiences emerged that Donald Trump has nominated former Wyoming Recreation and Fish Director Brian Nevsik as the following Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Nesvik’s nomination has been referred to the Senate’s Setting and Public Works Committee. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the federal company charged with defending endangered species and migratory birds and manages almost 860 million acres of nationwide wildlife refuges. Roughly 8,000 individuals work to hold out its mission to “preserve, shield, and improve fish, wildlife, crops and their habitats…”
Assertion by Susan Holmes, Govt Director
“Nesvik’s nomination is devastating information for wildlife and endangered species. Throughout his time as Director of Wyoming Fish and Recreation, he repeatedly known as for weakening the Endangered Species Act, oversaw a 50% enhance in looking tags for mountain lions and black bears, and testified earlier than the U.S. Congress that grizzly bears ought to lose endangered species protections, “by no matter means is important.” Final yr, his Fee obtained world condemnation for imposing solely a minimal tremendous when a Wyoming man used a snowmobile to run down and brutally torture a younger feminine wolf. There isn’t any doubt that if confirmed as Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, he’ll do the Trump Administration’s bidding to advance unchecked drilling, mining, and logging of fragile wildlife habitats. He’ll sacrifice our valuable endangered species for trade income at each flip. It will likely be a battle on wildlife that may wreak havoc on the safety and restoration of species from grizzlies to sea turtles to monarch butterflies.”
