Money is flowing into environmental groups for the connectivity agenda in the High Divide (HD) area. Just alone in 2016, Wilburforce gave $553,750.00 to various groups for assistance with their HD objectives. Some of those groups are local such as Salmon Valley Stewardship, Heart of the Rockies Initiative, and Lemhi Regional Land Trust. As usual, there were also donations to organizations with specific objectives in the High Divide such as the Idaho Conservation League, Wildlife Society, Wildlife Conservation Society, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, and Center for Large Landscape Conservation. There were also a couple of obscure groups that were given money for their HD objectives, Ecoflight and People & Carnivores. Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and Future West also received money for their HD objectives. Interestingly, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) was given money for "State Wildlife Agency Reform". Senator Risch seemed to support the NWF in their objectives for a Collaborative Wildlife Conservation bill, which died in a previous session, but is now sponsoring a new bill for the same called the Recovering America's Wildlife Act, S. 3223. Never doubt who Sen. Risch represents. All of these donations begin on page 27 in the PDF below.
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