Democrats and Republicans can work together to save America's wildlife

At a time when it has become difficult to find many areas of agreement in Washington, the outdoors have proven to be a real uniting force. 

The abundance of many species that we hunt and fish today is the direct result of collaborative work financed by bedrock conservation laws like Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson. Yet despite the incredible successes of these programs—particularly with game species like elk and mule deer in New Mexico and sportfish like black bass in Missouri— and the successes of the Endangered Species Act in preventing hundreds of species from going extinct, it’s been clear for decades that thousands of species of plants and animals are still declining or even heading towards extinction.