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,” […]
U.S. Reps. Madeleine Dean, Brian Fitzpatrick, and Andy Kim, along with U.S. Sens. Cory Booker, Bob Casey, and Bob Menendez, are supporting an effort to permanently fund the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund at $900 million a year. Sen. Pat Toomey is opposed, taking issue with the language creating perpetual funding. Several members of […]
Bills that would reduce the massive deferred maintenance backlog on public lands and establish mandatory funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, among others, are poised to advance tomorrow in the House. The House Natural Resources Committee will vote on the “Restore Our Parks and Public Lands Act,” H.R. 1225, and the “Land and Water […]
Jenny Rowland-Shea♦ Posted on June 13, 2019, 12:01 ama Getty/Portland Press Herald A 4-year-old girl gathers sand and seawater at Crescent Beach State Park in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, June 2018. OVERVIEW Land conservation and access can help states grow this critical sector Introduction and summary With more than 146 million Americans across the nation—nearly half of […]
House lawmakers filed legislation yesterday to provide permanent, full funding for the popular Land and Water Conservation Fund. Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-N.J.), the bill’s sponsor, is holding a press conference this morning with House Natural Resources Chairman Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick and outside supporters on the “Land and Water Conservation […]
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 […]
Bernhardt on LWCF: ‘I’m a believer’ Kellie Lunney, E&E News reporter Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt today reassured senators concerned about the administration’s paltry fiscal 2020 budget request for the Land and Water Conservation Fund that he would work with them “to make things land in the right place.” The Colorado native praised Congress for […]
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 […]
