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Species Threat Abatement and Restoration metric: The Species Threat Abatement and Restoration (STAR) metric documents the contribution of specific conservation and restoration actions in specific places by businesses, governments, civil society, and other actors towards global goals for halting extinctions. As such STAR helps identify actions that have the potential to bring benefits for threatened species, and it supports the establishment of science-based targets for species biodiversity.

New Frameworks Guide Conservation Action: WASHINGTON, April 6, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is unveiling new action-based frameworks to increase conservation work to address threats facing America’s working rangelands. These frameworks are designed to benefit both agriculture and wildlife in sagebrush and grassland landscapes of the western United States.

Kern, John: Deputy Chief, Field Ops, Florida Forest Service FBAN/LTAN Rx Burn Team supervisor

Forest and Rangelands National Priority Maps: Contains maps for: National Priorities for Broad-Scale Fuels Management; National Priorities for Community Planning and Coordination; National Priorities for Managing Human-Caused Ignitions; and Large, long-duration wildfire potential with opportunities map for managing wildfires for resource objectives.

USDA Invests $28 Million in New Projects to Help Restore Lost Wetland Functions, Benefits on Agricultural Landscapes: WASHINGTON, March 15, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $28 million in six new Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership (WREP) projects and four ongoing ones, which enable conservation partners and producers to work together to return critical wetland functions to agricultural landscapes. Partners will contribute $2.82 million, bringing the total investments to $30.82 million.