The House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, led by Del. Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D-GU), will hold an oversight and legislative hearing on the following:

• Planning for a Changing Climate and its Impacts on Wildlife and Oceans: State and Federal Efforts and Needs; and
  
  
• H.R. 4455 (Don Young): To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide international wildlife management and conservation programs through the Wildlife Without Borders Program in the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and for other purposes. (Wildlife Without Borders Authorization Act)

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Subject:
House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans
Oversight Hearing on "Planning for a Changing Climate and its Impacts on Wildlife and Oceans: State and Federal Efforts and Needs" and a Legislative Hearing on H.R. 4455, the Wildlife Without Borders Authorization Act

When:
Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at 10:00 a.m.

Where:
Room 1324 Longworth House Office Building

Witnesses:
Panel 1
Margaret Davidson, Director, Coastal Services Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Commerce
Tony Brunello, Deputy Secretary, Climate Change and Energy, California Resources Agency
Sarah Chasis, Director, Oceans Initiative, National Resources Defense Council

Panel 2
Dan Ashe, Science Advisor to the Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of the Interior
David K. Whitehurst, Director, Wildlife Diversity Division, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
Jamie Rappaport Clark, Executive Vice President, Defenders of Wildlife
William Moritz, Ph.D., Director of Conservation, Safari Club International Foundation, Acting Director of Governmental Affairs, Safari Club International

Panel 3
Kaush Arha, Ph.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary, Fish and Wildlife and Parks, U.S. Department of the Interior
John Robinson, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Global Conservation Programs, Wildlife Conservation Society
Tom Dillon, Senior Vice President, Field Programs, World Wildlife Fund
Patrick M. Burchfield, Ed.D, MSc, Director, Gladys Porter Zoo
Juan Pablo Arce, Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, NatureServe