AFT urges Biden to preserve 30% of working farmlands feedstuffs.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from feedstuffs.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
WASHINGTON Today, April 6, American Farmland Trust released “Agriculture’s Role in 30×30: Partnering with Farmers and Ranchers to Protect Land, Biodiversity, and the Climate” outlining agriculture’s critical role in the effort to “conserve at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030” as put forth in the Biden administration’s Jan. 27, 2021, Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. AFT’s recommendations make it clear that we urgently need to both permanently protect 5 percent of vulnerable working lands from being converted to development and support landowners’ voluntary efforts to implement conservation practices on an additional 25 percent of working lands, particularly in biodiversity hotspots, key connectivity corridors and areas with high carbon sequestration potential.
Endangered bats are target of federal forest program in Pennsylvania PennLive.com 3/16/2021 Marcus Schneck, pennlive.com
A federal program will be putting $300,000 on the ground to preserve and restore habitat for federally protected bats in Pennsylvania.
The USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service will target the Healthy Forest Reserve Program funding at permanent forest easements with habitat restoration in Adams, Armstrong, Beaver Bedford, Berks, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Snyder and York counties.
The effort will focus on preserving and restoring Indiana bat maternity colony and hibernacula habitat.
The HFRP is a voluntary program to assist landowners in restoring, enhancing and protecting forestland resources on private lands through permanent easements.