1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) a diverse array of species of fish and wildlife is of significant value to the United States for aesthetic, ecological, educational, cultural, recreational, economic, and scientific reasons; (2) more than 100,000,000 citizens of the United States participate in outdoor recreation through hunting, fishing, birding, and other wildlife-dependent recreation, all of which— (A) have significant value to those citizens; and (B) provide economic benefits to local communities; (3) it is in the interest of the United States— (A) to retain for present and future generations the opportunity to hunt, fish, observe, understand, and appreciate a wide variety of fish and wildlife; (B) to recover species of fish and wildlife listed as threatened species or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and to prevent fish and wildlife species from declining to the point of requiring Federal protection under that Act; and (C) to support collaborative and proactive conservation that will sustain the diverse fish and wildlife populations of the United States; (4) the first nongovernmental conservation organizations to instill fish and wildlife conservation values in hunters, anglers, bird watchers, and all citizens were founded during the 1880s and 1890s at the behest of hunters and anglers, including Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist George Bird Grinnell, who were alarmed that— (A) game and sportfish could not sustain unregulated harvest; and (B) avifauna needed protection from commercial take; (5) at the turn of the 20th century, the States— (A) realized the need to regulate the harvest of game and sportfish for sustainable use; (B) required hunters and anglers to obtain licenses and established regulations for game seasons, bag and creel limits, and legal means of take for game and sportfish