ENVIRONMENTAL LEADER • February 17, 2023
The US Department of Agriculture has awarded Purdue University a $10 million grant to help landowners and stakeholders adapt their forests to meet increasingly complicated economic and climate conditions in the Eastern US. Around half of the acreage of Eastern US forests are owned and controlled by around 5 million small, private landowners. In contrast with forests in the Western U.S., most of which are publicly owned. This project aims to improve the management of 15 million acres of those forests, an area nearly the size of West Virginia. Purdue will be joined in this endeavor by the University of Georgia, the University of Maine, and the US Forest Service.