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Tag Archives: national forests
A Look at How the Government Acquires Public Lands
This Saturday is National Public Lands Day—the nation’s largest single-day volunteer effort aimed at restoring and celebrating national parks, refuges, and forests. Many of these lands have belonged to the public for decades while others have been added recently as … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Resources and Environment
Tagged Anne-Marie Fennell, Bureau of Land Management, Conservation, Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest conservation, forest service, Forests, Habitat, national forests, National Park Service, National Parks, National recreation areas, Natural Resources and Environment, NRE, Outdoor recreation, public lands, Recreation, Water resources conservation, Wetlands, Wildlife
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GAO Reports by the Numbers: Natural Resources and Environment
From environmental issues to agriculture to radioactive substances, our Natural Resources and Environment team reports on topics that impact the natural world around us, the food we eat, and the disposal of nuclear waste, among other things. To get a … Continue reading
Forest Health
When Earth Day started in 1970, our nation’s forests needed help. That’s still the case today. For today’s Earth Day, the WatchBlog looks at federal efforts to restore large swaths of the nation’s forests.