Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page

9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report

LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code AGR

16. Specific lobbying issues

2018 Farm Bill: Recommendations to USDA from TNC on the implementation of conservation, forestry, and research provisions included in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (H.R. 2); Title II Conservation and Title VIII Forestry

FY20 Agriculture Appropriations:Conservation and Research Funding

House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis: Soil health provisions; Natural climate solutions; Climate and agriculture nexus.

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), U.S. Forest Service, U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None

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LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code BUD

16. Specific lobbying issues

S 47: Public Lands Package/LWCF
FY20 Commerce, Science, Justice Appropriations: Lobbied for FY2020 funding for NOAA Habitat Restoration program and Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Fund
FY20 Interior and Environment Appropriations: LWCF; US Forest Service forest restoration programs and wildfire provisions; Partnership Wild and Scenic Rivers; North American Wetlands Conservation Fund; natural resources and lands funding. (no bill number, as not currently filed); S.2580; Sage grouse; forest/hazardous fuels; CFLR and Joint Fire Science were key investments of interest; LWCF Table Rocks acquisition; Land Acquisitions in Alabama; Report language for Landscape Conservation Collabortives; Forest Service and Fire under DOI
REPI Approps request: Appropriations request form for REPI - Readiness and Environment Protection Integration.
FY20 NOAA Appropriations: House Commerce (NOAA) appropriations around Fisheries and Ecosystem Science Programs and Services (account: National Marine Fisheries Service/Fisheries Science and Management), particularly the National Fish and Wildlife Foundations (NFWF) Electronic Monitoring and Reporting grants and NOAAs Fisheries Information System (FIS) program (no bill number, as not currently filed); PCSRF; Coastal Resiliency Grants and funding requests; NOAA Habitat; NOAA provisions in CJS appropriations bill
FY 20 State & Foreign Ops Appropriations: International and Conservation Priorities at USAID and State Department; U.S. Contribution to the GEF funding for biodiversity and climate change; TFCA Funding; Biodiversity programs at USAID; Green Climate Fund.
2019 Omnibus Appropriations Act: Support for conservation programs in the Interior and Commerce and Agriculture appropriations bills; Sage Grass Rider; Report Language Supporting Landscape Conservation Collaboratives (LCC); Forest Roads; International Conservation
FY20 Agriculture Appropriations: Ag Research Service funding; Sagebrush Steppe ecosystem challenges; investment in ARS collaborative efforts; Funding for sage grouse science and research
Energy and Water Appropriations: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative; Robust funding for NESP; Navigational and Ecosystem Sustainability Program; Reclamation provision; Army Corps of Engineers provision
Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief 2019: Funding for NRCS Emergency Floodplain Easement Program; flexibility for NRCS / FSA/ USFS conservation and forestry programs; eligibility for midwest states flooded in March 2019.
HR 2740: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020
HR 3055: Commerce, Justice, Science, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2020
HR 2960: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020
H.R. 3195/S. 1081: Land and Water Conservation Fund: Permanent Funding
FY20 USFS Budget: forest roads; hazardous fuels; working woodlands/ Int'l Conservation: USAID biodiversity & landscape funding; GCF; GEF/ NOAA fisheries info systems; sea grant; NFWF monitoring grants/ DHS Plum Island preservation
HR 2157 Disaster Appropriations Funding Bill: Disaster funding for agriculture conservation; Resilience; Flooding programs
S.2582 Homeland Security Appropriations Act: Preservation of Plum Island
S.2524 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act: Preservation of Plum Island.
S.2583 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Act: USAID funding; Global Environmental Facility Fund; Green Climate Fund; Biodiversity
H.R. 1578: Perservation of Plum Island
S.569 2017 Land and Water Conservation Authorization and Funding Act
Water Resources Development Act: Funding fish passage on Alabama River Lakes
H.R.502/S.896 Land and Water Conservation Fund

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Interior - Dept of (DOI), U.S. Forest Service, State - Dept of (DOS), Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None

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LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code CAW

16. Specific lobbying issues

H.R. 2030 Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan Authorization Act
Funding for the Upper Colorado River Fish Recovery Programs in FY20 appropriations
H.R. 2875, National Flood Insurance Program Administrative Reform Act of 2017
National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization various bills
S.3021 Water Resources Development Act 2020: Water quality; natural infrastructure; nature-based solutions; Levee setbacks; Lower Mississippi River Study; project partnership agreements with the Army Corps; Incorporation of natural infrastructure at the Army Corps; Improved response to flooding and other natural disasters; Army Corps cost-benefit ratios; Resiliency; Recognition of donated materials in partnership projects; Flood risk management, storm damage reduction, ecosystem restoration projects
RESTORE Act: 10th Anniversary event
H.R.4058 Stemming Warming Augmenting Pay (SWAP) Act of 2019
S.2718 Western Water Security Act of 2019
House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis: Broad response to request for input on climate policy design priorities
H.R.2189 Digital Coast Act

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

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LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code ENG

16. Specific lobbying issues

S. 407 Carbon Capture Modernization Act
H.R. 1166/S. 383 USE IT Act:Reauthorization of Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy; S.J.Res. 8, A joint resolution recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal; Federal transportation and infrastructure legislation, support for electric vehicles; reform of the section 30D electric vehicle tax creditDevelopment of carbon capture technologies by creating a prize program for CCS technologies, directing EPA to create a program that enables R&D on CCS, streamlining CCS project permitting to be consistent with other permitting processes, and creating task forces that provide guidance on permitting and regional and agency coordination.
HR 2096: Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) funding
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) funding
S. 674: Clean Corridors Act of 2019
H.R. 2256/S. 1094: Driving America Forward Act
Energy and Water Appropriations: Energy & climate appropriations plans for FY20, FY21
S.2300 Clean Industrial Technology Act (CITA) of 2019: Innovation, incentives, enhancement
S.1201 Enhancing Fossil Fuel Energy Carbon Technology Act (EFFECT) of 2019: Carbon reduction, fossil fuel enhancement
H.R.4058 Stemming Warming and Augementing Pay (SWAP) Act of 2019: Greenhouse gas emission reduction
Future Energy Tax Innovation Act: Renewable energy, solar siting, wind leasing, EV incentives, EV infrastructure
Energy Savings and Industrial Competitivness Act: Climate change policy.
S.4250/ Market Choice Act: Price on Carbon: Grid Modernization; Input on bill design; All provisions/whole bill
H.R.3966 Raise Wages, Cut Carbon Act of 2019
S.2284/H.R. 4051 The Climate Action Rebate Act
S.2302 Americas Transportation and Infrastructure Act of 2019: Senate Infrastructure Bill: Environmental Infrastructure; Environmental incentives; Wind and solar siting
HR 3794 Public Lands Renewalbe Energy Development Act of 2019
Funding for the Transportation Fund for Clean Air

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, State - Dept of (DOS), Energy - Dept of

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

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15. General issue area code NAT

16. Specific lobbying issues

S. 47 natural resource management act: lobbied forLWCF reauthorization provisions in S47 - the natural resource management act; Nashua‐Squannacook‐Nissitissit River Wild and Scenic designation
Magnuson-Stevens Act reauthorization:meetings regarding potential Magnuson-Stevens Act reauthorthization (no bill number, as not currently filed)
Secure Rural Schools reauthorization
HR. 4525 Living Shoreline Bill
H.R. 3195/S.1081: Land and Water Conservation Fund: Permanent funding; Table Rocks project; Passage of bill in both chambers
S. 1932: drought resiliency and water supply act
H.R. 2473: Save Water Act - various provisions related to drought resilience.
H.R. 3237/S. 990: Platte River recovery implementation program extension act - endangered species recovery provisions.
2019 infrastructure bill: infrastructure priorities on alt energy research and incentives; grid mod; ev infra and incentives; aquatic/terrestrial connectivity; nature-based solutions.
S.2452 Climate Stewardship Act: Forest provisions/reforeststation, carbon sequestration in farming and forestry
H.R.1578/S.519: Plum Island preservation
S.2302 Americas Transportation and Infrastructure Act: Natural infrastructure, Energy
Energy and Water Appropriations: Navigation and ecosystem sustainability program
FEMA BRIC program: Rules and implementation
H.R.4160/S2429 Restoring Resilient Reefs Act of 2019
Coral Reef Conservation Act: Reauthorization
Coral Reef Task Force: Reauthorization
H.R.3799 Resiliance Revolving Loan Fund Act of 2019: Natural infrastructure provisions, levee set-backs
S.3021 Water Resources Development Act: Natural infrastructure solutions; Brandon Road project authorization; Nature-based solutions in Army Corps; Benefits/cost ratios; Funding fish passage on Alabama River Lakes; PPA/PL 84-99 language; Floodplain management
H.R. 3115 Living Shorelines Act of 2019
H.R.2189 Digital Coast Act
H.R.1951 Coastal and Marine Economies Protection Act: LWCF ammendments
H.R.502/S.896 Land and Water Conservation Fund:
Fire and forest management priorities, Increasing funding to forest restoration and reforestation
2008 Compensatory Mitigation Rule
H.R.925/S.261 NACWA Reauthorization
House Select Committee on Climate Crisis: Natural climate solutions related to forests
Future Energy Tax Innovation Act: Climate Change
H.R.2875 Naitonal Flood Insurance Program Administrative Reform Act, 2017: Natural infrastructure: Mapping
H.R.2607 - Resilient Federal Forests Act: Forest management provisions

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Interior - Dept of (DOI), U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

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15. General issue area code RES

16. Specific lobbying issues

S.569 - Land and Water Conservation Authorization and Funding Act
S. 47 the Natural Resources Management Act
H.R. 3351/S. 519: Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2020 - Lobbied for inclusion of Plum Island preservation language.
S. 1790: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 - Lobbied for inclusion of Plum Island preservation provision.
H.R. 1578: Plum Island Preservation Act
H.R. 1992: Charitable Conservation Easement Program Integrity Act of 2019
H.R. 925/S.261: NAWCA Reauthorization - Requetsed support in the form of co-sponoship of bills to reauthorize the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) - HR 925 and S 261 respectively.
H.R.3195/S.1081 LWCF
Comments on proposed public lands legislation for Clark County, not yet introduced.
S.2582 - Homeland Security Appropriations Act: Plum Island language

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

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15. General issue area code TAX

16. Specific lobbying issues

H.R. 1992 and S. 170: Syndicated Tax Easements; Charitable Conservation Easement Program Integrity Act: Conservation easement tax reform

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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15. General issue area code TRA

16. Specific lobbying issues

Federal Lands Transportation Program
House infrastructure bill: Natural infrastructure, forests, energy, and permitting measures in an expected House infrastructure/transportation bill; legacy roads and trails; decommissioning language for USFS roads; resiliency, climate change, culverts and tide gates, wildlife colliiosn, energy infrastcution, and EV transition.
Navigational and Ecosystem Sustainability Program in the upcoming appropriations cycle
S.2302 - America's Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019: Natural infrastructure; Resilience; Wildlife crossings; Forest roads; Permit reform; Resilience; PROTECT Grants; Natural Energy; Sec.1101 Definitions; Sec. 1109 Block Grants; Sec. 1106 Emergency Relief; Sec. 1125 Wildlife Crossing Safety; Sec. 1407 PROTECT; Sec. 1401 Alt. Fuel Vehicle Infrastructure Program; Sec. 1402. Reduction of Truck Emissions at Port Faciliities ; Sec. 1403 Incentive-based climate program; Sec. 1404, Urban congestion relief; Sec. 1405 State Freight Plans; Sect. 1406 USE IT Act; Sec. 1407 block grants; Sec. 1408 Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA); Sec. 1208 Complete Streets; Sec. 1301 Efficient Environmental Reviews for Project Decisionmaking and One Federal Decision; Sec. 1101 Federal Lands Transpo. Program; Sec. 1504 Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation program

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), U.S. Forest Service

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

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Information Update Page - Complete ONLY where registration information has changed.

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22. New General description of client’s business or activities

LOBBYIST UPDATE

23. Name of each previously reported individual who is no longer expected to act as a lobbyist for the client

ISSUE UPDATE

24. General lobbying issue that no longer pertains

AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS

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Internet Address:

26. Name of each previously reported organization that is no longer affiliated with the registrant or client

FOREIGN ENTITIES

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28. Name of each previously reported foreign entity that no longer owns, or controls, or is affiliated with the registrant, client or affiliated organization

CONVICTIONS DISCLOSURE

29. Have any of the lobbyists listed on this report been convicted in a Federal or State Court of an offense involving bribery, extortion, embezzlement, an illegal kickback, tax evasion, fraud, a conflict of interest, making a false statement, perjury, or money laundering?
No Yes