Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) reintroduced a bipartisan bill on March 13 that would “help conserve working forests and give landowners more options to ensure their land is protected.”
The bill would expand the Healthy Forests Reserve Program and rename it the Forest Conservation Easement Program.
According to The Conservation Fund, the FCEP would provide landowners with the option of placing voluntary conservation easements on their land, either with the federal government or with entities and land trusts.
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