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A healthy stand of longleaf pine trees rise toward a blue sky. Photo by Leo Miranda, USFWS.

In the News: Lumbee tribe returns fire to the soil to restore cultural and ecological heritage (borderbelt.org)

09/25/2024

Controlled burning has major benefits to forest ecosystems, especially the longleaf pine. The trees once grew in abundance across the sandhills of North Carolina but have diminished to less than 3 percent of their original 92 million acre range due to overdevelopment, logging and fire suppression. The Lumbee Cultural Burn Association wants to bring healing to ancestral lands, honor cultural traditions through fire-focused ecology, and protect the area from wildfires.

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Pink purplish flowers surrounded by green weeds.

Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $24 Million from Investing in America Agenda to Restore Our Nation’s Lands and Waters (www.doi.gov)

09/25/2024

As the nation kicks off Climate Week, the Department of the Interior today announced more than $24 million from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to restore our nation’s lands and waters. The funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will support 50 ecosystem restoration projects that include on-the-ground action in 34 states and multiple U.S. Territories, as well as many projects that provide nationwide benefits, building climate resilience, improved habitats, and healthier communities.

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