An ag law specialist says the U.S. has already met President Biden’s threshold to conserve 30 percent of the nation’s land and waters by 2030.
Dave Aiken with the University of Nebraska says the America the Beautiful Report shows 12 percent of U.S. land is protected but it doesn’t include non-federal government land like parks and tribal lands. “I think when they start taking an actually hard look at it, they will find that we’re at or over 30 percent protected,” Aiken says.
