Summaries

Each year, the Fly-In participants are kept running between meetings with Representatives and Senators. In addition, meetings are set up with some of the regulatory agencies. As an example, below is a summary of the 2019 Fly-In.

2019 Quick Look:

36 participants
3 ½ days of meetings
251 face-to-face meetings total with Congressional Offices
183 House Meetings and 68 senate meetings

Meetings with regulatory agencies U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), and Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management (DOI/BLM).

2019 topics included U.S. reliance on critical minerals and the country’s over-reliance on mineral imports; the importance of keeping public lands open to mineral exploration and other issues.

This is a typical schedule for the Fly-Ins.

The WMC Coordinator works for months setting up meetings with Representatives, Senators, their aides, and top level people in regulatory agencies. Often, many changes are necessary before the schedule is finalized. THEN at the last minute, changes are made to some of the meetings because the people we are visiting have to be somewhere else – on the House or Senate floors for votes.

Sometimes the aides are not the ones who work with Natural Resource Issues and we visit with others. The information packets are left with each visit.

See the list of years in the side bar for what we did during those years. See the Issues page for the topics that were covered during the meetings. These are the papers that are included in the packets left with the people we visit.