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    WGA Policy Resolution 2024-09, Water Quality in the West

    Published on June 11, 2024
    Clean water is essential to strong economies, healthy ecosystems, and quality of life in the West.  In this resolution, Governors emphasize states’ role as co-regul...
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    WGA Policy Resolution 2024-09, Water Quality in the West

    Published on June 11, 2024

    WGA Policy Resolution 2024-05, Disaster Preparedness and Response

    Published on June 11, 2024
    The resolution recognizes the role Governors have in coordinating the four phases of emergency management: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. It also highlights...
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    Environmental Management

    WGA Policy Resolution 2024-05, Disaster Preparedness and Response

    Published on June 11, 2024

    WGA Policy Resolution 2024-04, Combating the Opioid Crisis

    Published on November 08, 2023
    The opioid epidemic has become one of the nation’s most devastating and lethal public health and safety crises.  This new resolution highlights the challenges posed...
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    Healthcare

    WGA Policy Resolution 2024-04, Combating the Opioid Crisis

    Published on November 08, 2023

    WGA Policy Resolution 2024-03, Species Conservation and the Endangered Spec...

    Published on November 08, 2023
    This resolution updates Western Governors’ policy positions on species management and conservation issues.  The resolution expresses the Governors’ support fo...
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    Species Management

    WGA Policy Resolution 2024-03, Species Conservation and the Endangered Spec...

    Published on November 08, 2023

    WGA Policy Resolution 2024-02, National Forest and Rangeland Management

    Published on November 08, 2023
    Western states contain over 75 percent of the national forest and grassland system, and communities in the West depend upon forests and rangelands for jobs, recreation, and qu...
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    Environmental Management

    WGA Policy Resolution 2024-02, National Forest and Rangeland Management

    Published on November 08, 2023

    WGA Policy Resolution 2024-01, Strengthening the State-Federal Relationship

    Published on November 08, 2023
    Improving state-federal communication and coordination is among the Western Governors’ highest priorities.  In the absence of a Constitutional delegation of authori...
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    State-Federal Relationship

    WGA Policy Resolution 2024-01, Strengthening the State-Federal Relationship

    Published on November 08, 2023

    WGA Policy Resolution 2023-10, Infrastructure Permitting

    Published on June 28, 2023
    A clear, consistent, focused, and effective environmental review process is essential to protect environmental resources, ensure public participation, and facilitate timely de...
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    Economic Development

    WGA Policy Resolution 2023-10, Infrastructure Permitting

    Published on June 28, 2023

    WGA Policy Resolution 2023-09, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons

    Published on June 28, 2023
    American Indian and Alaska Native people, particularly women, are disproportionately likely to experience violence, be murdered, or go missing.  This resolution highlight...
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    Missing and Murdered Indigenous People

    WGA Policy Resolution 2023-09, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons

    Published on June 28, 2023

    WGA Policy Resolution 2023-08, Veterans

    Published on June 28, 2023
    The Department of Veterans Affairs and other federal agencies offer many programs and services for veterans who struggle with complex challenges after their service, including...
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    Healthcare

    WGA Policy Resolution 2023-08, Veterans

    Published on June 28, 2023

    WGA Policy Resolution 2023-04, Housing is Foundational to the Success of th...

    Published on December 07, 2022
    Due to rapid population growth and housing shortages, housing is a significant challenge in urban, suburban, and rural areas across the West.  This resolution highlights ...
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    Economic Development

    WGA Policy Resolution 2023-04, Housing is Foundational to the Success of th...

    Published on December 07, 2022

    WGA Policy Resolution 2023-03, Tax-Exempt Federal Lands and Secure Rural Sc...

    Published on December 07, 2022
    The federal government must honor its historic Payment In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) agreement with states and counties in the West to compensate them for the presence of tax-exempt...
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    Economic Development

    WGA Policy Resolution 2023-03, Tax-Exempt Federal Lands and Secure Rural Sc...

    Published on December 07, 2022

    WGA Policy Resolution 2023-01, Working Lands, Working Communities

    Published on July 28, 2022
    The resolution recognizes the complex relationship between western communities and the landscapes that sustain them.  Our lands offer economic opportunity, ecological ben...
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    Agriculture

    WGA Policy Resolution 2023-01, Working Lands, Working Communities

    Published on July 28, 2022

    WGA Policy Resolution 2022-12, Recreation and Tourism on Public Lands

    Published on June 30, 2022
    This resolution articulates Western Governors’ policy on the management of recreation and tourism on public lands. Governors support public access and sustainable outdoo...
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    Economic Development

    WGA Policy Resolution 2022-12, Recreation and Tourism on Public Lands

    Published on June 30, 2022

    WGA Policy Resolution 2022-11, Biosecurity and Invasive Species Management

    Published on June 30, 2022
    This resolution addresses invasive species management and adds substantial new policy, including: a call to address the destructive relationship between invasive grasses and w...
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    Environmental Management

    WGA Policy Resolution 2022-11, Biosecurity and Invasive Species Management

    Published on June 30, 2022

    WGA Policy Resolution 2022-10, Federal-State Land Exchanges and Purchases

    Published on June 30, 2022
    Federally owned lands are widespread throughout western states and are often interspersed with state, tribal, county, municipal, and private lands. This ownership pattern comp...
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    Environmental Management

    WGA Policy Resolution 2022-10, Federal-State Land Exchanges and Purchases

    Published on June 30, 2022

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