Land and Water Conservation Fund Expires, Jeopardizing Critical Work

[SecularMotion]

Source: Nature Conservancy

ARLINGTON, VA | October 01, 2015

At midnight last night, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) expired after Congress failed to take the needed action to renew it. LWCF has been one of America’s premier conservation programs for 50 years.

The Nature Conservancy responded with the following statement from its President and CEO, Mark R. Tercek:

“The expiration of LWCF is terrible news for the country, because the program has benefited all of us. This is a failure to live up to our country’s long-standing commitment and responsibility to protect our natural heritage.

“America would not look the same without LWCF. It has done everything from protecting some of our most iconic places to creating local parks and ballfields in communities across the nation. Now, for the first time in 50 years, we face the very real possibility of finding out the hard way what our future looks like without this important conservation work.

Read more: http://www.nature.org/newsfeatures/pressreleases/lwcf-expires-jeopardizing-critical-work.xml

[duhneece]

1. My two Dem Senators support it, my 'teaparty' other critter doesn't

I can't imagine too many R's will support it without a lot of hunter and fishermen support...and, of course, we tree-huggers.

[turbinetree]

2. And this folks is how a country becomess a third rate country......................

“Inaction has costs. Failing to reauthorize LWCF puts a long list of conservation projects at risk. It also disrupts the smart balance the Fund sought to create by offsetting the use of one natural resource with the protection of another—by directing funds from offshore oil and gas revenue toward conservation."


Who removed this from the short term budget 75 day budget-----------------who was the representative-------------my guess----------------------------- Paul Ryan


The key word "CONSERVATION"

[Sunlei]

3. disgusting of Congress to fail to protect our RENEWABLE (with a bit of care), lands and water.

We humans are part of that environment, we need it to survive.

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. The Conservatives are the very same NIMBY whiners who refuse to fund conservation.

[scarletwoman]

5. Well, shit. That really bites.

What is it going to take to get these nihilists out of our government? (rhetorical question)

Anyway, I rec'd your OP not because this makes me happy, but because I'd like to see it make the Greatest Page where more people will see it.

[cheapdate]

6. Arrrrgh! Even if they restore the funds,

the discontinuity is unavoidably damaging to programs like this. This makes me really fucking angry.