With the 2008 Farm Bill, Congress tasked the states and territories with assessing all the forests within their boundaries and developing strategies to improve the health, resiliency, and productivity of those forests. The resulting Forest Action Plans provided Congress, land managers, federal agencies, and scientists with an analysis of forest conditions and trends across the country, as well as practical, long-term plans for investing state, federal, and other resources in the most effective ways possible.
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