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Committee advances bill to give DCNR explicit authority to conserve native terrestrial invertebrates
Summary
House Bill 441 would amend the Wild Resource Conservation Act to include terrestrial insects and give the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) clearer authority to study and protect native invertebrates.
The committee reported out House Bill 441, which would amend the Wild Resource Conservation Act of 1982 to explicitly include native terrestrial invertebrates — including pollinators such as bumblebees and monarch butterflies — among resources the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) may study and protect.
Sponsor Rep. Pialey told members that invertebrates are critical to ecosystems and agriculture, citing…
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