Outlines recommendation related to private forest management, urban forests, forest health funding, fire assistance, and federal and state land management policy.
Provides a Forest Carbon Management Menu to help translate broad carbon management concepts into actionable tactics that help managers reduce risk from expected climate impacts in order to meet desired management goals.
LPDD recommends that EPA strengthen its regulations in ways that would decrease GHG emissions incidentally to the water pollution controls at the heart of its mandate.
Congress has directed EPA to exclude crops “harvested from land cleared or cultivated” after December 19, 2007 from its definition of “renewable biomass,” however, the intent of the statute has largely been nullified in interpretation.
Pays farm owners the lowest of the fair market value of the land or an offer made by the farm owner. Alternatively, farm owners can apply for “long-term” wetland easements, which typically run for 30 years.
Pays farmers to improve, maintain, or adopt conservation practices on their farms.
Provides financial assistance to farmers who adopt or install conservation practices on land in agricultural production.
Pays farmers to take environmentally sensitive land out of agricultural production for 10-15 years.
The NCED contains records for more than 130,000 conservation easements encumbering more than 24 million acres of land.
The USDA Economic Research Service provides a primer on existing USDA conservation programs, including the CRP, ACEP, EQIP, CSP, and more.