Goals
- Improve the quality of the nation’s air, soil, and water
- Manage wildlife to reduce harm and damage
- Implement sustainable agricultural, environment, and natural resource practices for farms, forests, wildlife, and rangelands
- Develop water management solutions that address critical watershed problems
- Support small businesses’ development of innovative technologies designed to help industry implement sustainable environmental practices
- Improve the quality of the nation’s surface water and groundwater resources
- Discover scientific solutions for maintenance and restoration of the nation’s farm, forest rangeland ecosystems
- Build land-grant institutions’ capacity for forestry and natural resource research and extension services
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