🦆 A BIG WIN FOR CALIFORNIA’S HUNTERS & WILDLIFE AREAS!
Governor Newsom has signed CWA-sponsored AB 1987, helping ensure that millions of dollars generated by hunters and agricultural leases on Type A and B State Wildlife Areas are reinvested back into those lands.
The new law protects hunter-generated application and user fees for:
🌿 Wildlife Area operations and maintenance
🦆 Public hunt programs
đź’§ Wetlands and wildlife habitat
It also directs agricultural lease revenues back to the lands that generate them—creating a more stable source of funding for these important public areas.
California’s hunters help fund these lands. AB 1987 helps make sure those dollars stay there.
đź‘Ź Thank you to Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry and Assemblymember Heather Hadwick for authoring AB 1987, and to everyone who helped move this important legislation across the finish line.
AB 1987 follows similar pieces of legislation sponsored by California Waterfowl over the years that were also signed into law to increase the accountability and transparency over the use of hunting-related monies, including laws to create hunter-oversight committees for the use of duck stamp and upland gamebird stamp funds, restrict how Pittman-Robertson Act monies may be used in California, create dedicated accounts for the Nesting Bird Habitat Incentive Program and SHARE Program, and ensure that fish and game fine revenues are not redirected for non-conservation purposes.
Through our Advocacy program, California Waterfowl will continue fighting for legislation that protects waterfowl, wetlands and hunting.
