Conservation Should Respect Private Property Rights, Done In Coordination with Landowners

The White House is looking to conserve an additional 18 percent of the nation’s land and water by 2030. Any effort to achieve this goal should be done respecting private property rights and executed in coordination with private landowners, ConservAmerica Senior Advisor Robert Dillon told WAFF48.

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“The Biden Administration’s 30 by 30 plan hopes to conserve 30 percent of the nation’s land and water by the year 2030. Currently, 12 percent of the land is protected, so that means an additional 18 percent would need to be conserved.

“That is twice the size of Texas that you are looking at. That is a lot of Land,” says Stacey Perea. Manager at Redboat Farms.

President Joe Biden’s plan has some landowners around the state concerned. Their concern is focused on a new push to tackle the climate crisis. The executive order was initially signed on January 22. On May 6, the Department of Interior released a 22-page document called Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful. The document outlines steps to preserve key areas on the land and in the seas to restore biodiversity.

Robert Dillon, Senior Advisor at ConservAmerica says this is an ambitious goal. It will increase access to outdoor recreation and create more parks, but it will need to incentivize private landowners to make this a reality.

“Approach it in a way that incentivizes private landowners to do conservation. Rather than just taking the land and sticking it in the federal inventory where we have to pay for it,” says Dillon.”

Read the whole story at WAFF48.