Senate Agriculture Committee Addresses Conservation and Forestry Concerns

Codi Coulter is a law student at Maryland Carey School of Law and guest contributor on this blog. The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry held a hearing March 1 to discuss the 2023 Farm Bill’s conservation and forestry titles. Because agricultural production practices are not one-size-fits-all throughout the United States, a broad theme in the hearing revolved around…

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The 2023 Farm Bill: An Opportunity to Address the Growth of Wildfires

Nicole Miller was a spring student with the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic. She is a guest contributor on this blog. In January 2022, the United States Forest Service, an agency of the U.S Department of Agriculture (“USDA”), released a wildfire crisis strategy report aimed at confronting the growing wildfire crisis.  The report highlighted that the “size, duration and destructivity”…

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