Today while Natasha met with our host, Brenda Schick, Allie was busy doing both research for her project and planning the sophomore summit. Allie is working on a politics project based in Arizona aiming to add privately owned land to the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest and get funding to protect the land from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Natasha is working on a policy project based in Oregon regarding the climate impacts of a land conservation effort that incorporates conservation policy and the Biden-Harris 2030 Conservation plan.
Today, Allie researched the positions of local and national representatives from this area in order to eventually write a memo outlining who would likely support efforts to transfer this land into public ownership. She investigated primarily the voting history and websites of Arizona House Member Brenda Barton, Arizona House Member Walter Blackman, and Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers.
Meanwhile, Natasha began background research into the Biden-Harris 2020 Plan, learned specifics of conservation policy with the host, and created an outline for a memo which she will be writing in the coming days. This memo will focus on the climate impacts of a land easement on a certain area and also the impacts regarding socioeconomic equity.
Above is a screenshot from Allie’s project.