• In 2008, there were a record number of climate change bills introduced in Congress and thanks to National Wildlife Federation, almost all of the bills included language on the impacts of global warming on natural resources. Provisions underscored for the first time that it will not be sufficient just to reduce carbon emissions – we must also protect and restore natural systems impacted by global warming by investing dedicated funding to help integrate climate science in natural resource management plans.

• Produced the first case statement detailing how imperative it is to include natural resources funding in climate change legislation, Investing in America’s Natural Resources: The Urgent Need for Climate Change Legislation. What’s at stake because of global warming in nine major ecosystems in America is detailed.

• Released a report, The Chesapeake Bay and Global Warming, on the impacts of sea-level rise on the coastal wetlands of the Chesapeake Bay, calling for a major shift in how land is managed in the Bay to protect one of the nation’s “Great Waters.”

• Developed a successful partnership with timber companies, state agencies and others to protect the Beaverhead-Deerlodge Wilderness area in Montana.

• Used litigation to stop the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s decision to open 26 million acres of Conservation Reserve Program land to emergency haying and grazing, that would have destroyed critical habitat for nesting birds.

• Through our allotment retirement program we have now closed more than 500,000 acres of public land to grazing in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

• After decades of struggle by NWF, our affiliates, and colleague organizations, we finally secured an EPA formal veto on the Clean Water Act permit for the Yazoo Pumps project in Mississippi. This would have been an extremely destructive project - draining 200,000 acres of critically important wetlands and impacting scores of wildlife species.

Read our Reconnecting People with Nature Accomplishments

Read our Confronting Global Warming Accomplishments