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The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) is America’s most important conservation program, responsible for protecting parks, wildlife refuges, and recreation areas at the federal, state, and local levels. LWCF is funded by revenues from offshore oil and gas royalties—it does not use any American tax dollars—and it is in danger of expiring this SUNDAY. Many of the lands that NPT has donated to the National Park Service were purchased with funding from LWCF, including Rocky Mountain National Park, Washita Battlefield National Historic Site, Glacier National Park, Appalachian National Scenic Trail, and Zion National Park.


Please contact your elected officials TODAY, before the program expires on Sunday, September 30th, to tell them that you support the Land and Water Conservation Fund. You can find contact information for your representatives and senators on NRPA’s website as well as draft emails. You can also read an op-ed by NPT’s Board Member Richard Ring on how the loss of LWCF will have a huge effect on the outdoor economy.
SAVE LWCF

$100,000 Gift from Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Sends Hundreds of Youth Camping For First Time

National Park Trust is excited for the opportunity to provide transformational camping experiences to hundreds of under-served urban youth thanks to a $100,000 grant from the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation. This gift will support 300 students and teachers with 3-day overnight camping trips in national parks.

“National parks and experiences are beneficial to students because they teach us things we cannot learn in environments near our homes,” stated DaPria Fell, a student from Friendship Charter describing her trip in 2017.
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National Park Trust believes all kids deserve a chance to explore parks—but the reality is that the outdoors aren’t accessible to all. We are working to build an access trail to the outdoors through an online giving campaign to help pay for the transportation costs to get kids to parks. Transportation is the single biggest hurdle to getting Title I children outside and into parks.

 

Why is it so important that we get Title I school kids outside? Because most park visitors don't reflect the rich diversity of our country. In order to create the next generation of park stewards, we need to bridge this gap. Help us send a classroom, or better yet, a school to a park today!
GET KIDS INTO PARKS
  
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