‘America the Beautiful’ Plan Debuts the Biden Administration’s Approach to Conserving the Environment and Habitat The mom-and-apple-pie effort taps into the nation’s broad concern for protecting natural places and imperiled species, and will also help fight climate change. May 7, 2021 View of Wild Goose Island in Saint Mary Lake at sunrise in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States. Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images Related Share this article The Biden administration on Thursday introduced its “America the Beautiful” plan to conserve 30 percent of the nation’s land and water by 2030, calling it the country’s first-ever national conservation goal and issuing a stark warning about the state of the country’s natural areas.