Tell Governor Wolf to Call for Full Funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund

From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):

From Valley Forge to the Delaware Water Gap, so many of Pennsylvania’s — and our country’s — most treasured places have benefited from America’s most successful conservation and recreation program: the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).

Back in September, Congress let the program expire — but thanks to support from people like you, we were able to convince Congress to bring LWCF back.

Now, we’re working to make sure Congress can’t divert the program’s funding to other projects, now or in the future. Gov. Wolf and his staff have been a powerful voice in defending LWCF.

Tell Gov. Wolf to continue standing up for conservation in Pennsylvania at https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=33725.

Gettysburg National Military Park and the Flight 93 Memorial are just two of the many places in Pennsylvania that have benefited from LWCF. For more than 50 years, LWCF has funded conservation projects in places big and small, here and across the nation from Gettysburg to Grand Canyon National Park, to local hiking trails and Little League fields.

Each year, $900 million is supposed to go into LWCF, but only once (in 2001) has Congress given LWCF its full funding.¹ In recent years, the program has received about half of that.² And the Trump administration’s latest budget proposal all but zeroes it out, and tries to pull back $23 million that was already allocated for important conservation projects.³

That’s why we’ve been calling on Congress to pass the Land and Water Conservation Fund Permanent Funding Act, a bipartisan bill that would make sure LWCF always gets its full share of the budget.⁴

Our call will be even more powerful with Gov. Wolf’s continued defense of this program. By joining us in support of LWCF, he can help make sure Pennsylvania’s representatives and senators make fully funding LWCF a priority.

Invite Gov. Wolf to join our call to fully fund LWCF.

After all, this is about something bigger than the divisions that too often polarize our politics. This is about Pennsylvania and the places that make it beautiful.

1. Sarah Vogelsong, “Trump, Congress make Land and Water Conservation Fund permanent,” Bay Journal, April 8, 2019.
2. Marianne Goodland, “Trump signs bill reauthorizing conservation fund, but his budget has little money for it,” Colorado Politics, March 12, 2019.
3. Rob Chaney, “Trump signs lands bill but budget rejects money for Land and Water Conservation Fund,” Missoulian, March 12, 2019.
4. “S.1081 – Land and Water Conservation Fund Permanent Funding Act,” Congress.gov, accessed July 18, 2019.