Wyoming wildlife honcho Brian Nesvik has left tracks on Capitol Hill showing where he might like to take the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Now President Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee the agency, Nesvik hails from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department where he held leadership posts that made him a go-to hearing witness for Western Republicans.
In 2017, for instance, while serving as his state’s chief game warden, Nesvik told a Senate panel that “patience is waning quickly” over the continued Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves.
Nesvik told those lawmakers that EPA had “appropriately determined” not to ban lead fishing tackle. Two year later, following his promotion to head the state wildlife agency, he told a House subcommittee that the Yellowstone-area grizzly bear population was “fully recovered as measured by all federally developed recovery criteria” and so it should be removed from the list of threatened species.
