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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Comment Period for the National Nature Assessment Closes March 31, 2023</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted1">In April 2022, the Biden administration announced the launch of the first-ever U.S. National Nature Assessment (NNA). Led
by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, this report will assess the state of the U.S.’s lands, waters and wildlife and the specific benefits that they provide. The assessment will also allow the country to look ahead at how nature might change in the future
and identify opportunities for investments in nature to help achieve climate, health, environmental justice and economic goals.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted1"></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted1">In October 2023, the White House Office of Science Technology and Policy (OSTP) issued a Request for Information (RFI),
entitled Framing the National Nature Assessment, to inform the development of the NNA. The comment period ends March 31, 2023.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted1"></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted1">This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for ecologists to provide input to the US government on how nature, biodiversity
and ecosystems will be measured to provide the information needed to manage ecosystems and biodiversity within the United States.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted1"></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted1">In an editorial in ESA journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.2583),
Heather Tallis, Allison Crimmins and Jane Lubchenco write: “We invite you to help shape it and ensure strong, diverse, relevant content. You can start by telling us: What questions should the NNA answer? What needs should it fill? How can we ensure strong
collaboration with users and incorporate diverse ways of knowing nature? What form should the final product(s) take to be most accessible and useful to you, your community, and the government?”</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted1"></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted1">Tallis is the acting director of the National Nature Assessment and the assistant director for biodiversity and conservation
sciences in the White House OSTP. Crimmins is the director of the National Climate Assessment and Lubchenco is the OSTP deputy director for climate and the environment.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted1"></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted1">OSTP requests a limit of 3500 words and/or seven pages for each RFI submission. Submit a comment here:</span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted1">
</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted1">https://contribute.globalchange.gov/</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted1"></o:p></span></p>
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