Action Alert: Help Protect the Land and Water Conservation Fund
This year, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) marked its 50th anniversary, celebrating a half-century of success in conserving our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, wilderness, monuments, and civil war battlefields, as well as creating and developing state and local parks in all 50 states. LWCF is the nation’s premier conservation funding program and is essential to the combined efforts of Voyageurs National Park Association and the National Park Service to acquire the remaining private properties within Voyageurs National Park from willing sellers.
Unfortunately, Congress has consistently underfunded LWCF, despite the fact that all funding for the program comes from royalties on federal oil & gas leases along the outer continental shelf. This dedicated funding for LWCF should be restored to its authorized level of $900 million, as proposed in the President’s 2015 budget. LWCF’s current authorization will expire in September 2015. The time to act is now. Urge your members of Congress to enact a permanent and comprehensive solution for this vital program before the 113th Congress adjourns.
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