The U.S. Forest Service is awarding $80 million in Wood Innovation Grants to spur wood products manufacturing and expand forest management.
“The United States is blessed with a bounty of natural resources that we must properly manage to sustain our future economy and boost rural communities,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins said in a statement. “Proper forest use and management lowers our reliance on foreign products and is inherently aligned with President Trump’s America First agenda.”
The investment follows through on Rollins’ April memorandum to the Forest Service to carry out efforts to make forests more productive, the news release said.
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