From the Whitewater Capital to the Nation’s Capitol – Day 4
When Rural Voices for Conservation first started, we knew policies at the national level needed to shift. Members advocated for collaboration to become the norm in decision making on public lands, for example. They helped find solutions like stewardship contracting that recognized the importance of local workforce benefit and ecologically intact communities.
This trip to Washington DC finds us with fewer policy fixes, and more inquiries about using the hard won authorities t