Whereas access to public land, nature, and a healthy environment should be a right for all people, as that access is essential to the health, well-being, identity, cultures, and economic prosperity of the United States; Whereas the United States faces a conservation and climate crisis, with nature in a steep decline and greenhouse gas emissions not declining at the rate scientists say is needed in the United States and worldwide; Whereas scientists are documenting a rapid loss of natural areas and wildlife in the United States and throughout the world, including— (1) a finding that, from 2001 to 2017, a quantity of natural areas equal to the size of a football field disappeared to development every 30 seconds in the United States, constituting more than 1,500,000 acres per year; (2) a finding, published in the journal Science , that the United States and Canada have lost 2,900,000,000 birds since 1970, representing a decline of 29 percent; (3) the identification by State fish and game agencies of approximately 12,000 animal and plant species in the United States that require proactive conservation efforts to avoid extinction, of which approximately 1/3 will be lost in the next decades; (4) a finding by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service that the United States has lost more than 1/2 of all freshwater and saltwater wetlands in the contiguous 48 States; and (5) the 2019 findings by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services that— (A) human activities are damaging 2/3 of ocean areas; (B) only 3 percent of ocean areas remain pristine; (C) 15 percent of mangroves remain; (D) 50 percent of coral reefs remain; and (E) at the current rate of losses, less than 10 percent of the Earth will be free of substantial human impact by 2050; Whereas climate change is accelerating the decline of nature in the United States