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The Berkshire Community Land Trust invites people ages 15-30 to participate in a workshop at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 5, via Zoom, on the topic of equitable land access in the Berkshires. The workshop is part of a series of virtual discussions called âThe Future of Working Lands.â This first workshop is aimed at young people. Future workshops will engage various business, cultural and identity groups.
In the effort to reach the 30×30 goals for biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation called for under the Biden administration’s January executive order on tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad, the American Farmland Trust called for policies of voluntary, incentive-based and locally-led conservation. Roughly 60% of the land in the United States is privately owned and many, if not most, wildlife species rely on these lands for habitat and foraging. Although the areas of greatest biodiversity and carbon sequestration are mostly composed of private lands – such as rangeland...
USDA unveiled new action-based frameworks to increase conservation work to address threats facing America’s working rangelands. These frameworks are designed to benefit both agriculture and wildlife in sagebrush and grassland landscapes of the western United States. USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service partnered with state-level organizations from across the West to develop the new frameworks to combat the most severe and large-scale threats: woody encroachment, land-use conversion, exotic annual grass invasion and riparian and wet meadow degradation. More than one million acres ...
New frameworks guide conservation action on America’s working rangelands Landowners can improve habitat for both prairie-chickens and livestock, boosting ranch sustainability. Photo courtesy Lesser Prairie Chicken Initiative -USDA WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is unveiling new action-based frameworks to increase conservation work to address threats facing America’s working rangelands. These frameworks are designed to benefit both agriculture and wildlife in sagebrush and grassland landscapes of the western United States. USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service ...
World Resources Institute At the same time, state-level climate action will remain essential. History has shown that even an engaged U.S. federal government faces real obstacles to progressive regulatory and legislative action. In the face of federal gridlock and inaction, state and local governments have played a crucial role in advancing climate action, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and supporting the continued maturation of key low-carbon technologies such as wind and solar generation as well as electric vehicles. Rather than taking a backseat, state leadership must now continue alon...