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PA Natural Heritage Program Provides Wild Heritage News Update

PA Environment Daily

Endangered Species Act -- Update On Ecological Assessment of Allegheny County Parks Click Here to read the entire Summer Wild Heritage News. PNHP is a partnership between the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the Game Commission, the Fish and Boat Commission, and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.

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NRCS-PA Now Accepting Applications For $300,000 For Funding Forest Easements In 12 PA Counties

PA Environment Daily

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Pennsylvania announces $300,000 is available to forest landowners in targeted counties through the Healthy Forest Reserve Program (HFRP). HFRP helps landowners restore, enhance and protect forestland resources on private lands through easements and financial assistance.

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Our 2022 State Legislative Priorities

Washington Nature

Conservancy forester Kyle Smith takes measurements in the old-growth forest at TNC’s Ellsworth Creek Preserve in southwest Washington. Several of our priorities this year seek to stem the loss of irreplaceable natural and working lands and ensure our state is empowered to plan more thoughtfully for the years to come.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

Conservation: The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act ( S. billion annually to state and tribal fish and wildlife agencies for conservation and the implementation of state wildlife action plans. Reconciliation: The Build Back Better Act ( H.R.

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How a Federal Drought Relief Program Left Southern Oregon Parched—and Contributed to the Ongoing Groundwater Crisis in the West

Circle of Blue

November 23, 2021. That’s because the region’s ongoing groundwater woes are at least two decades in the making, exacerbated in part by the very federal programs meant to conserve water in the area, The Counter has found. For earlier stories in the Tapped Out series, click here. By Jessica Fu, The Counter.

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Biden Administration Asks Supreme Court to Reject Challenge to ESA Rule

Endangered Species Law

On May 14, 2021, the Department of Justice filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing that the Court should not hear the case of Kansas Natural Resource Coalition v. Department of Interior (“ KNRC ”).

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Clean Water for Salmon & People

Washington Nature

Sign in Pro for salmon recovery The Lorraine Loomis Act ( HB 1838 ) is in the House Natural Resources Committee. We’re also obligated under the federal Endangered Species Act and through treaties with sovereign tribal nations, not only to make salmon recovery a priority, but to succeed in these efforts.