A section for those who want to support the state grants portion of LWCF and are actively engaged in advocacy or assisting in securing matching funds for state and local projects.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee should first move legislation to provide mandatory funding for a popular conservation program, and then advance another bipartisan bill to help reduce the multibillion-dollar maintenance backlog in national parks, a top Republican said yesterday. “The better way to have success with those bills is to do again what […]
We are facing a conservation crisis – it’s time to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Article from The League of Conservation Voters, Oct. 3, 2019. See link below.. https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/464291-we-are-facing-a-conservation-crisis-its-time-to-fully
Here is oral and President Imgrund’s written testimony at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on June 25th, 2019. Written Senate Testimony 6-25 Oral Testimony Outline NASORLOSenateENR625 (2)
Supporters of mandatory funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund do not want the escalating deferred maintenance backlog on public lands and in national parks to eclipse their efforts to boost the popular bipartisan conservation program. “I know some of my colleagues believe we must choose between funding LWCF and a deferred maintenance backlog,” […]
Drew YoungeDyke Sep 25, 2018 Excerpts from his article from fall 2018.. Trail running participation has more than doubled in the past decade (NWF Photo) My forefoot strikes dirt, my toes push off and the other foot follows suit. Prairie grasses brush my shins as I run the Bloody Knife Trail up a hill above General […]
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), ranking Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) will introduce today bipartisan legislation to provide permanent, full funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, his office confirmed last night. The “Land and Water Conservation Fund Permanent Funding Act” would make funding for the LWCF mandatory at its current authorized annual level of $900 […]
The following file shows how funds will be appropriated under the new LWCF re-authorization act, P.L. 116-9. Basically, there are three changes. 1. Permanently authorizes LWCF. 2. Provides states and territories with a 40% share of total LWCF which now includes in it’s total for calculating the 40%, annual distribution from GOMESA. 3. And makes […]
Dozens of outdoor recreation business owners across the country are calling on congressional appropriators to put $900 million into the Land and Water Conservation Fund in fiscal 2020. “Outdoor recreation is an $887 billion — and growing — industry,” the group wrote in a lettertoday to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), the […]
Trump to sign LWCF bill after proposing to defund program Kellie Lunney, E&E News reporter Published: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and House Natural Resources Chairman Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) doing an interview about the recently approved public lands package. The president is set to sign it today. @RepRaulGrijalva/Twitter […]
FEB 26, 2019 MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON — A wide-ranging bill that revives a popular conservation program, adds 1.3 million acres of new wilderness, expands several national parks and creates five new national monuments has won congressional approval. The measure is the largest public lands bill approved by Congress in more than a decade. […]
