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USDA Announces Historic Investment in Wildlife Conservation, Expands Partnership to Include Additional Programs: $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.

Join the SFE/LANDFIRE grasslands digital office hour on Wed. 6/28: Reminder: This Wednesday at 1 PM ET we are cohosting the monthly LANDFIRE Office Hour with special guests Brice Hanberry and Reed Noss as they talk about tools to understand the historical extent of grasslands in the eastern U.S.

Tennessee River Basin Network’s 2023 Conference: Registration Open | TRBN 9th Annual Conference - August 23-24 - Florence, AL

Tennessee River Basin Network News-Issue 42-June 2023: A Tennessee River Basin where aquatic and human life thrives.

Eastern Deciduous Forests: 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: 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: 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.

Multimedia: Video stories about healthy forestry, private forest conservation, and associated science.

Grasslands and Savannas map: Map for Bobwhite, Grasslands and Savannas region

Home page banner: Banner image of grassland from Buffalo Gap National Grassland

Group in Field: 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)

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