U.S. FEDERAL POLICY

Current Considerations

Updated CRP and Skinny Farm Bill - Talking Points released September 2025
The Lesser Prairie-Chicken Landowner Alliance: Saving Ranching, Rural Communities, Water, and Wildlife
- Secure Ranching Strongholds in the Southwestern Great Plains (from Lesser Prairie-Chicken Landowner Alliance)
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Funding appropriations in congress for NRCS's Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative … opportunity to sign on
South Dakota Grasslands Initiative considers modernization of Conservation Reserve Program
CGRI’s Farm Bill Priorities and Talking Points - Released March 2025

Additional Farm Bill Resources

A Closer Look at North America’s Grasslands Conservation Act (NAGCA)

North American Grasslands Conservation Act (NAGCA): NAGCA's Science-based project demonstrates the need for legislation aimed at conserving America's prairies, savanna's, glades, and sagebrush. A coalition of conservation organizations celebrates the launch of mapforgrasslands.org as illustration of the need for the North American Grasslands Conservation Act. The first-of-its-kind website documents the loss of grasslands in North America, the subsequent impact on iconic wildlife species, and the need for grasslands-specific legislation – the North American Grasslands Conservation Act (Grasslands Act) – to address upland habitat loss.

Considering a Grasslands Conservation Act: “America’s Dwindling Grasslands Require Action”
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Spotlight: Grassland Conversion Briefing from the World Wildlife Fund

This op-ed from the World Wildlife Fund on grasslands conversion published in The Hill, addresses unintended consequences of two federal government policies -- crop insurance subsidies and the Renewable Fuels Standard -- as they are driving conversion of grasslands when the U.S. is working toward net-zero emissions. It is based on the recent F&F policy brief "Saving Our Grasslands."

This includes policy actions the US government must take to conserve America’s grassland prairie habitats. Grasslands are critical for biodiversity and nature, hold approximately one-third of global terrestrial carbon stocks, and provide critical resilience in the face of climate change. They are also essential to livelihoods and food security. And yet each year we plow up millions of acres of grasslands, to the point where more than 70% of America’s prairies have been destroyed. Here is the full brief, Saving Our Grasslands, along with an executive summary, and a blog that can be easily shared.