For 50 Years, the Land and Water Conservation Fund has helped protect public lands and support outdoor recreation. If Congress doesn't act, it will expire in 20 days.
From the Great Sand Dunes, to access on the Colorado River, to community parks and trails in our own backyards, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has set aside and protected special places in Colorado and nationwide for the past 50 years. If you've gone fishing, hiking or camping on public lands, or picnicked at a community park in your area, there's a good chance the LWCF helped protect it. But despite 50 years of success, LWCF could be lost for good if Congress doesn't reauthorize the program before it expires on September 30.
The program doesn't rely on your tax dollars - rather, it is funded from a portion of the royalties on offshore oil and gas development. Proceeds from the sale of one public resource are used to invest in another public resource - public lands and recreation facilities. Approximately $239 million has been invested from LWCF into Colorado's great outdoors. You can read about some of the projects it has helped support in Colorado in a newly-issued Colorado TU report, Colorado's Great Outdoors, available online here. But we need Congress to act now to ensure that the program continues to benefit future generations.
Please ask your Senators and Representative - today - to support permanent reauthorization of LWCF, so that it can continue to benefit our public lands and Colorado's multi-billion dollar recreation economy.
Senators Bennet and Gardner are both on record supporting LWCF - urge them to keep up the fight to get this program approved. Our House delegation has split on the issue; please ask them to step up and ensure that LWCF's benefits continue to flow to Colorado and our great outdoors.
Thank you for helping make a difference for our public lands and outdoor recreation!
From the Great Sand Dunes, to access on the Colorado River, to community parks and trails in our own backyards, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has set aside and protected special places in Colorado and nationwide for the past 50 years. If you've gone fishing, hiking or camping on public lands, or picnicked at a community park in your area, there's a good chance the LWCF helped protect it. But despite 50 years of success, LWCF could be lost for good if Congress doesn't reauthorize the program before it expires on September 30.
The program doesn't rely on your tax dollars - rather, it is funded from a portion of the royalties on offshore oil and gas development. Proceeds from the sale of one public resource are used to invest in another public resource - public lands and recreation facilities. Approximately $239 million has been invested from LWCF into Colorado's great outdoors. You can read about some of the projects it has helped support in Colorado in a newly-issued Colorado TU report, Colorado's Great Outdoors, available online here. But we need Congress to act now to ensure that the program continues to benefit future generations.
Please ask your Senators and Representative - today - to support permanent reauthorization of LWCF, so that it can continue to benefit our public lands and Colorado's multi-billion dollar recreation economy.
Senators Bennet and Gardner are both on record supporting LWCF - urge them to keep up the fight to get this program approved. Our House delegation has split on the issue; please ask them to step up and ensure that LWCF's benefits continue to flow to Colorado and our great outdoors.
Thank you for helping make a difference for our public lands and outdoor recreation!
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