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Eastern Deciduous Forests: In the northeastern U.S., partners are helping reinvigorate private forestry as a viable—and sustainable—industry. After decades of harvesting valuable trees from forests and leaving the rest, eastern deciduous forests are a monoculture of same-age or same-species trees, lacking both market value and healthy wildlife populations. WLFW “hit the reset button” by working with forest owners to establish young forest stands and restore economic value and abundant wildlife such as white tailed deer, turkey, ruffed grouse, and rarer species like the golden-winged warbler.

Aquatics: Our natural resource conservation programs help people reduce soil erosion, enhance water supplies, improve water quality, increase wildlife habitat, and reduce damage caused by floods and other natural disasters.

Grasslands and Savannas: The central and eastern grassland and savanna regions of the U.S. include the number one crop production states for corn, wheat, sorghum, soybeans, peanuts and cotton. Six of the top ten forest production states are in the East, and the Fescue Belt has the highest concentration of livestock producers and livestock in the country. Southeastern grasslands are the most diverse biologically in the U.S. but also the most imperiled with up to 90% in degraded condition or lost. Major threats include: habitat loss and fragmentation; climate change; alterations to natural land disturbance regimes; and invasive species.

Multimedia: Video stories about healthy forestry, private forest conservation, and associated science.

Grasslands and Savannas map: Map for Bobwhite, Grasslands and Savannas region

Home page banner: Banner image of grassland from Buffalo Gap National Grassland

Group in Field: USDA’s Farm Service Agency Administrator Zach Ducheneaux visits P.J. Haynie, a fifth-generation row crop farmer based out of Virginia with a satellite operation in Arkansas. Ducheneaux toured Haynie’s farm in Marvel, July 23, 2022. (USDA/FPAC photo by Preston Keres)

Finding Land and Capital for Your Farm: As a new farmer or rancher, finding farmland to buy and capital to buy the land with are probably your biggest challenges.