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 | No Money The Trust for Public Land, a national land conservation organization, today expressed disappointment with a Fiscal Year 2012 bill approved by the House Subcommittee on Interior and the Environment Appropriations. The bill proposes drastic cuts to the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) reducing the program by 80% from fiscal year (FY) 2011 levels that were already 30% below the FY 2010 levels. |
LWCF is the principal federal program for conservation of key lands within our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other popular and sensitive areas, and for support of state and local parks and recreation. The program is funded using a fraction of offshore oil and gas revenues, and unlike other federal spending, uses no taxpayer dollars.
Oh well, I guess that money can be better spent elsewhere.
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