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USDA Announces Historic Investment in Wildlife Conservation, Expands Partnership to Include Additional Programs by Rosanne Hessmiller, last updated: Jun 27, 2023 01:57 PM: $500 Million from Farm Bill Is Part of Broader Commitment from FSA and NRCS to Working Lands Conservation that Benefits Wildlife and Supports Agriculture and Rural Communities BOULDER, Colo., June 27, 2023 – Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing that it will expand its work on wildlife conservation by investing at least $500 million over the next five years and by leveraging all available conservation programs, including the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), through its Working Lands for Wildlife (WLFW) effort. These commitments, which align with President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, will ramp up the conservation assistance for farmers, ranchers, private forest owners and tribes with a focus on working lands in key geographies across the country as well as hiring for key conservation positions. The funding will help deliver a series of cohesive Frameworks for Conservation Action, which establish a common vision across the partnership of public and private interests and goals for delivering conservation resources in a given ecosystem, combining cutting-edge science with local knowledge.

Eastern Deciduous Forests by Web Editor, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 04:20 PM: In the northeastern U.S., partners are helping reinvigorate private forestry as a viable—and sustainable—industry. After decades of harvesting valuable trees from forests and leaving the rest, eastern deciduous forests are a monoculture of same-age or same-species trees, lacking both market value and healthy wildlife populations. WLFW “hit the reset button” by working with forest owners to establish young forest stands and restore economic value and abundant wildlife such as white tailed deer, turkey, ruffed grouse, and rarer species like the golden-winged warbler.

Aquatics by Web Editor, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 04:20 PM: Our natural resource conservation programs help people reduce soil erosion, enhance water supplies, improve water quality, increase wildlife habitat, and reduce damage caused by floods and other natural disasters.

Grasslands and Savannas by Web Editor, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 04:20 PM: The central and eastern grassland and savanna regions of the U.S. include the number one crop production states for corn, wheat, sorghum, soybeans, peanuts and cotton. Six of the top ten forest production states are in the East, and the Fescue Belt has the highest concentration of livestock producers and livestock in the country. Southeastern grasslands are the most diverse biologically in the U.S. but also the most imperiled with up to 90% in degraded condition or lost. Major threats include: habitat loss and fragmentation; climate change; alterations to natural land disturbance regimes; and invasive species.

Eastern Deciduous Forests by Web Editor, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 03:47 PM

Multimedia by Web Editor, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 03:33 PM: Video stories about healthy forestry, private forest conservation, and associated science.

Monarch circle by Tracy Clark, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 03:31 PM: Monarch butterfly on a zinnia

Quail and baby in grass by Tracy Clark, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 03:31 PM: Mother bobwhite quail and baby in grass

Grasslands and Savannas map by Tracy Clark, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 03:31 PM: Map for Bobwhite, Grasslands and Savannas region

Ocala National Forest by Tracy Clark, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 03:31 PM: Ocala National Forest. Source: iStock

Home page banner by Tracy Clark, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 03:31 PM: Banner image of grassland from Buffalo Gap National Grassland

Group in Field by Tracy Clark, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 03:31 PM: USDA’s Farm Service Agency Administrator Zach Ducheneaux visits P.J. Haynie, a fifth-generation row crop farmer based out of Virginia with a satellite operation in Arkansas. Ducheneaux toured Haynie’s farm in Marvel, July 23, 2022. (USDA/FPAC photo by Preston Keres)

Grasslands and Savannas boundary map by Tracy Clark, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 03:31 PM: Grasslands and Savannas boundary map

Grassland Framework cover by Tracy Clark, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 03:31 PM: Image from cover of Grassland Framework

Finding Land and Capital for Your Farm by Web Editor, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 03:31 PM: As a new farmer or rancher, finding farmland to buy and capital to buy the land with are probably your biggest challenges.

Great Plains Biome Map by Web Editor, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 03:31 PM: Great Plains Biome Map NRCS-WLFW-1024x666

Prairie Coneflower by Tracy Clark, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 03:31 PM: Field of Prairie Coneflowers

Grassland and Savanna Images by Rosanne Hessmiller, last updated: Jun 26, 2023 03:31 PM

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