The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee heard expert testimony Dec. 8 on the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA), a bipartisan wildlife protection bill that would be funded by fines and other money collected from environmental or natural resource-related violations. RAWA revises the 1937 Pittman-Robertson Act, which gave the tax money collected on firearms and ammunition to individual states for the purpose of protecting and studying wildlife. RAWA would create a new, $1.3 billion subaccount for states, territories, and the District of Columbia to implement their wildlife conservation strategies, recover endangered or threatened species, combat invasive species, and fund law enforcement activities related to protection of wildlife species of greatest conservation need, among other purposes. Additionally, it would create a $97.5 million tribal wildlife conservation and restoration account for uses similar to those of the $1.3 billion subaccount. The Senate version of RAWA was introduced by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) …