Yes, I\u2019ll gladly shovel the snow. Far better than choking on forest fire smoke this coming summer. Despite the lack of sunshine, it\u2019s clearly a new day in America. The Biden Administration offers hope that Americans who value our wild lands and wild creatures will see healthier, science-based conservation directives from our federal agencies.<\/p>\n
And not a moment too soon. A global biodiversity crisis, largely driven by human activities, is degrading ecosystems on land and at sea and accelerating climate change.<\/p>\n
Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Lafayette) recently reintroduced a resolution to create a National Biodiversity Strategy, calling for a national commitment to addressing a problem decades in the making that threatens not only wildlife and public lands but the well-being of our own communities as well. President Joe Biden has already made a good start by expressing his support to protect 30% of American lands and waters by the year 2030, a goal supported by 81% of Coloradoans, according to a 2021 Conservation in the West poll.<\/p>\n
I urge our representatives to support the President\u2019s pledge and to take up the existential cause of developing a National Biodiversity Strategy. Now is the time to restore America\u2019s historic role in conservation leadership.<\/p>\n
Clint McKnight<\/em>Durango<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, I\u2019ll gladly shovel the snow. Far better than choking on forest fire smoke this coming summer. Despite the lack of sunshine, it\u2019s clearly a new day in America. The Biden Administration offers hope that Americans who value our wild lands and wild creatures will see healthier, science-based conservation directives from our federal agencies. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48560"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}