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7 Policy Proposals to Restore U.S. Trees | World Resources Institute

As federal policymakers craft a plan to grow the U.S. economy and address the climate crisis by rebuilding the country’s infrastructure, the United States Congress has a unique opportunity to invest in some of the most important natural infrastructure there is: trees. Restoring trees to the landscape is the largest, near-term opportunity to remove carbon dioxide from the air at the scale needed to help meet the country’s ambitious climate goals. WRI’s research has found that at its upper-bound potential, tree restoration in the U.S. which includes reforestation, restocking degraded forests, and agroforestry could remove up to 540 million tons of carbon dioxide from the air each year through 2050. The average cost of carbon removal through tree restoration is less than $10 per ton of CO

Federal bills targeting carbon on farms

President Biden announced a major goal – for the U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by half over the next decade as compared to 2005 levels. Agriculture will play a key role in that reduction by “deploying cutting-edge tools to make the soil of our heartland the next frontier in carbon innovation,” according to President Biden. Several bills introduced in Congress recently could help agriculture fulfill that key role. The proposals offer incentives and assistance for farmers, ranchers, and forest owners to engage in carbon sequestration practices.  Here’s a summary of the bills that are receiving the most attention. The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee passed S. 1251. The bipartisan proposal led by sponsors Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) already has the backing of over half of the Senate as co-sponsors, including Ohio’s Sen. Sherrod Brown. The bill has come up in

America's forests are at risk without a funding strategy

ADVERTISEMENT America’s forests are critically important to our water, wildlife and way of life throughout the nation. They are home to critical watersheds and headwaters in the West, they provide crucial habitat and migration corridors to iconic species and they support hundreds of thousands of jobs in a wide range of sectors throughout the nation. That’s why our organizations the National Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conservancy and American Forests came together to support a new approach to national forest restoration and management. Our platform to revitalize our national forests, based on the input of dozens of forest management and policy experts from across the United States, would invest at least an additional $1 billion per year in the U.S. Forest Service’s budget. This new funding dwarfed by the damage wildfires routinely wreak on communities would increase the scale and quality of forest restoration, including reorienting national forest stewardship to f

America's forests are at risk without a funding strategy

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