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  Across the country, land trusts are banding together to stop state legislation that would limit private land conservation.  

On January 27, just days into his new administration, President Joe Biden issued an executive order focused on “tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad.”

I am a lifelong Nebraskan with deeply planted roots in southwest Sarpy County. For nearly a century, my family has farmed in the Lower Platte Valley, an area rich with some of our state’s most fertile soils. In Nebraska’s fastest growing county, there is now an urgency to protect the historic farmsteads, rolling fields of grain and the diverse habitat needed to sustain the abundant wildlife of the region. In these rapidly changing times, agriculture is being squeezed out and farms are vanishing at an alarming rate. Unfortunately, my family has suffered that reality.

For native Texan Blair Calvert Fitzsimon