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Forest Service partnership effort improves health of America's Forest
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The U.S. Forest Service announced today that 1.45 million acres of America's forests and watersheds – an area larger than Delaware – are healthier as a result of collaborative partnerships to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires.
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Forest Service Report Highlights Restoration Progress Made Despite Growing Challenges
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The U.S. Forest Service has increased the pace and scale of forest restoration by nine percent since 2011, according to a report released today. The significant progress comes in the face of mounting challenges to the agency including record droughts, longer wildfire seasons and the increasing percentage of the agency’s budget spent fighting wildland fires.
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News & Events
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Forests Protect Our Waterways
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Healthy waterways are at the heart of thriving landscapes, and as a landowner, you play a crucial role in keeping these waterways clean and vibrant. Streams and rivers do more than carry water; they nourish crops, support livestock and wildlife, and help maintain the health of our communities. One of nature's most effective guardians of these waterways is the riparian buffer—a belt of trees, shrubs, and grasses alongside rivers and streams. These forested buffers are powerful natural solutions that filter pollution, stabilize stream banks, and provide vital habitats for many species—all while adding value to your land.
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Stories
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Framework for Conservation Action in the Great Plains Grasslands Biome
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A ‘Call to Action’ has emerged in the Great Plains to scale-up conservation on private lands and meet the sustainability targets that benefit both agriculture and wildlife. In 2020, a multi-state, areawide planning initiative produced the first biome-scale framework for grassland wildlife conservation on the region’s sustainable working rangelands. This initiative features an action-based framework for 2021-2025 focused on addressing the two most severe and large-scale threats to the Great Plains biome: woodland expansion and land use conversion.
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General Resources Holdings
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Framework for Conservation Action in the Sagebrush Biome
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This action-based framework is the culmination of multi-state, areawide planning initiated to update SGI 2.0 and its ongoing success in 2021-2025. This framework also serves as NRCS’ ongoing contribution to the Sagebrush Conservation Strategy administered by Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. Sharing common cross-boundary threats, NRCS staff across 11 western states collaborated to create this shared vision for conservation action.
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General Resources Holdings
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Freshwater Network Northeast Region: Northeast Aquatic Connectivity Project's Tool
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Tool for assessing barriers to aquatic connectivity including dams and road-stream crossings.
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Learning & Tech Transfer
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Apps, Maps, & Data
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From Flames to Forests: Past, Present, and Future Fires for Sustaining Our Forests and Wildlife
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This webinar will feature some of the leading researchers and practitioners in fire science to help us understand how to manage our forests with fire under challenging circumstances.
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Events
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WLFW Events Inbox
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FY17-21 WLFW-Northern bobwhite Map
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This map was current as of FY21 for NRCS WLFW-Northern bobwhite but updated for FY22 based on the NRCS state offices that opted into the Northern bobwhite, Grasslands and Savannas Framework partnership (by FY22 there will be 24 states).
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Maps and Spatial Data
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FY21 WLFW-GWWA Project Boundary
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Updated to include new priority areas in NY.
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Information Materials
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Maps & Data
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Maps
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General/Terrestrial Ranking Guidance (GA example)
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Whether a NRCS state has ranking fund pools or guidance that is bobwhite specific varies, many simply have a terrestrial ranking/funding pool. This is an example of ranking guidance for a general terrestrial sign-up in Georgia.
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NRCS Conservation Practices & Materials
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Screening & Ranking
