A weekly roundup of nature-related odds and ends from the region and beyond.
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Administration Releases the America the Beautiful Plan.
The Biden-Harris administration recently outlined a vision for how the United States can work collaboratively to conserve and restore the lands, waters, and wildlife that support and sustain the nation. The recommendations are contained in a report outlining a locally led and voluntary nationwide conservation goal to conserve 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.
Learn more in reports from the following sources:
- U.S Department of the Interior
- Inside Climate News
- Outdoor Alliance
- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
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- Hike United, a National Hiking Movement, is Coming in August Andrew Weaver - Outside Business Journal
The Hike United initiative is aimed at healing traumas of the pandemic and kickstarting in-person conversations about how to improve the outdoor industry.
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- 8 Wilderness Rules That are Actually Myths Katrina Rossos - Packpacker
Not everything you learned about nature is true. Go ahead and forget these eight misconceptions.
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- Secretary Haaland Announces $150 Million to Create Public Parks, Expand Recreation Opportunities in Urban Areas U.S. DOI news release
The Department of the Interior has announced that the National Park Service will distribute $150 million to local communities through the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership grant program. The program, established in 2014, enables urban communities to create new outdoor recreation spaces, reinvigorate existing parks, and form connections between people and the outdoors in economically underserved communities.
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- The Post-Pandemic Birding World Bob Ford & Paul J. Baicich - Partners in Flight
How bird conservationists and bird watchers might start navigating a novel, impactful way forward in the updraft of an emerging “new normal.” Wisdom and lessons learned from a tumultuous year when a “global pandemic, severe economic distress, calls for social justice, and deepening political divisions” galvanized changes in social behavior and in how and when people interact with birds.
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Compiled by Bob Butters
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