A House Republican bill aimed at conserving at-risk wildlife and species habitat would spend about a billion less a year than bipartisan legislation currently struggling to gain traction in the Senate.
The GOP legislation would authorize as much as $300 million in annual appropriations over the next five fiscal years for state and tribal wildlife agencies to boost their conservation efforts, according to draft legislation obtained by Bloomberg Government. This is much less than the roughly $1.4 billion in yearly mandatory spending included in the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act
The Republican bill also would rescind hundreds of millions ...