The State Biodiversity Network mobilizes grassroots activists working on state issues and provides information, strategies, tactics and organizing tools to strengthen state wildlife and wildlands protection.
Ballot measures are an important tool for state activists.
Ballot measures give citizens the power to propose bills and laws, and to enact or reject them at the polls. Twenty-six states allow some form of ballot action by state citizens. A few states allow measures in any general, primary or special election. A bond supporter said that voters approved the measure because they share the common sense that our heritage has to be protected for future generations. The measure proposed to protect salmon by banning commercial fishing nets in state waters.