Dave Aiken is a professor and agricultural law and water specialist in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 

President Biden has proposed that 30% of U.S. land should be conserved by 2030 — the so-called "30x30 plan." The "Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful" report, issued in May, identified early actions that could be taken to approach this goal and noted that only 12% of U.S. land is currently permanently protected for conservation purposes. Aiken discusses the plan, the pushback it has received from some agricultural groups and what could happen next. 

Read his article on the topic here on farm.unl.edu.