Public Comments
During 2010 – 2011, SCI filed comments on the following federal and state rules, policies and actions:
- Washington State’s Wolf Conservation and Management Plan;
- California Fish and Game Commission decision on Hunting in Mojave National Preserve;
- New River Gorge National River Draft General Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (including on continuing hunting)'
- Kofa National Wildlife Refuge Pronghorn Reintroduction;
- Enhancement of Survival Permits for Michigan and Wisconsin Management of Endangered Wolves;
- Proposed Amendments to Regulations on Financial Assistance: Wildlife Restoration, Sport Fish Restoration, Hunter Education and Safety;
- Moriah Horse Area; Reveille Horse Management Area (“HMA”); Montezuma Peak and Paymaster HMA; Silver King HMA; Winter Ridge HMA; Piceance/East Douglas HMA; and Eagle, Chokecherry, Mt. Elinore HMAs. Safari Club also filed comments on September 3, 2010 regarding the Department of the Interior’s scoping document on a national strategy for horse and burro management;
- Proposed Delisting of Western Great Lakes Wolves;
- Big Cypress National Preserve, Final General Management Plan/EIS for the Addition Lands, including Wilderness designation and off-road vehicle use;
- Selawik National Wildlife Refuge Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Assessment;
- Montana’s Proposed Wolf Harvest;
- White-tailed Deer Management Plan For the Monocacy and Antietam National Battlefields and the Manassas National Battlefield Park;
- Ninety Day Finding on the Reclassification of Straight-horned Markhor;
- Wood Bison Downlisting or Delisting Under the ESA;
- Proposed Changes to the Huron-Manistee Forest Plan That Respond to a Recent Court Ruling That Held the Forest’s Existing Plan to Be In Violation of the 1982 Forest Planning Rules;
- The Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations;
- The Unimak Island Caribou/Wolf Management Plan;
- Conserving the Future: Wildlife Refuges and the Next Generation- A Vision Statement for Management of the National Wildlife Refuge System;
- A Comprehensive Review of All FWS Regulatory Reform;
- Scoping for Water Resource Management for the Mojave National Preserve;
- Proposed Rule for Regulating Take of U.S. Captive Herds of Scimitar-Horned Oryx, Dama Gazelle and Addax.





