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** Interior announces funding for wildlife corridors
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Friday, April 8, 2022
Pronghorn. Photo by Ryan Howell, BLM Flickr ([link removed])

The Interior Department announced $9.5 million in funds for wildlife corridors ([link removed]) and habitat conservation projects in seven states and three tribal nations. The funding will support 13 projects aimed at improving big game migration corridors. Interior framed the announcement as a key component of the Biden administration's "America the Beautiful ([link removed]) " initiative to conserve 30% of America's lands and waters by 2030.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland trumpeted the funding announcement during a virtual presentation, saying ([link removed]) , "To be successful, we must knit together our resources, our science, our various tools, our patchwork of lands and our collective will to do our part in ensuring the best habitats for wildlife." The funding announcement coincided with a new agreement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Native American Fish and Wildlife Society to coordinate habitat conservation projects.

The term wildlife corridors ([link removed]) refers to the routes that wildlife use to move across the landscape between significant habitat areas. Animals of all types, from robins to trout and salamanders to grizzly bears, need to move to complete their life cycles and find resources. To learn more, check out the Center for Western Priorities' interactive wildlife corridors storymap ([link removed]) .
Quick hits


** People deserve to know their houses are going to burn
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The Atlantic ([link removed])


** Interior announces funding for wildlife corridors
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E&E News ([link removed])


** How the oil industry cast climate policy as an economic burden
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Grist ([link removed])


** Wind energy company pleads guilty after 150 eagles killed at its farms
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Associated Press ([link removed])


** Methane emissions rose to a new high in 2021, chorus for cutting emissions grows louder
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New York Times ([link removed]) | E&E News ([link removed]) | Washington Post ([link removed]) [cut emissions]


** Republicans want oil executives to stop apologizing and do less to avert climate disaster
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HuffPost ([link removed])


** Opinion: BLM skipping review where livestock conflicts are greatest
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Reno Gazette Journal ([link removed])


** Solar expansion project stalled by land use protest
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Reuters ([link removed])
Quote of the day
” Far from “slipping away,” our ability to lower atmospheric temperature has thus far been flung to the four (now regularly hurricane-level) winds, because a few of us are making too much money from fossil fuels and the rest of us are busy weighing in on things like “cancel culture” or what the film academy should do with Will Smith to notice that we are boiling ourselves to death."
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times ([link removed])
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** @DenaliNPS ([link removed])
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They grow up so fast! The pups, born in August, are old enough to be pulling dog sleds! Blitz and the rest of the siblings did their first full patrol last month, accompanied by our seasoned adult dogs. Denali still has lots of snow on the ground, lucky for the canine rangers!

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