Biden Administration Unveils Forest Conservation Program to Tackle Climate Change

The Biden administration has announced steps toward fostering forest conservation and enhancing forest resilience to climate change.
In a press release on April 20, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced a program designed to achieve those goals on federally managed lands administered by the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
USDA and DOI collaborated on several reports, as directed by President Joe Biden’s executive order on Strengthening the Nation’s Forests, Communities, and Local Economies (E.O. 14072) signed in 2022.
The order requires auditing mature and old-growth forests, setting reforestation targets on federally managed lands, and analyzing reforestation opportunities on state, tribal, and private lands….}