Tell the President to Sign the Great American Outdoors Act

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

Good news! Congress just passed the Great American Outdoors Act, which will fully and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).

With this vote, we’re one step closer to the biggest conservation win in a generation, and President Trump has expressed support. Now, the bill is in his hands.

Join PennEnvironment at https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=39225 in calling on President Trump to sign the Great American Outdoors Act into law.

From Gettysburg Battlefield and Allegheny National Forest to neighborhood baseball diamonds, LWCF is critical to preserving public lands of all shapes and sizes. It’s one of our nation’s most successful conservation and recreation programs, and has funded at least one project in almost every county in every state across the country.^1,2

President Trump recently tweeted his intent to sign full and permanent funding of LWCF into law — but at other times he’s threatened to slash the program’s budget.³

President Trump needs to hear from Pennsylvanians like you. Tell the president: Protect our national parks, wildlife refuges and more for generations to come.

Sandy, it’s with the help of tens of thousands of supporters like you that we were able to play a part in this victory. PennEnvironment sent more than 20,000 messages to Congress urging our representatives to support full and permanent funding for LWCF. We rented billboards in several states calling on representatives to save LWCF, published a steady series of op-eds, and lobbied on Capitol Hill on behalf of this legislation.^4,5

Now, we need your help to ensure that this chance to protect our national parks, wildlife refuges and more doesn’t pass us by. President Trump’s signature is the last step in the process of protecting LWCF, and, by raising our voices, we can urge him to preserve our public lands.

Take action.

1. Christine Peterson, “Feds buy Grand Tetons land from state for $46 million, ending concerns over development,” Casper Star Tribune, December 12, 2016.
2. “Land and Water Conservation Fund,” National Park Service, January 8, 2020.
3. Rebecca Beitsch, “Trump calls for full funding for conservation program after slashing it in his budget,” The Hill, March 3, 2020.
4. Cindy Dunn and David Masur, “The greatest conservation program no one has ever heard of,” The Tribune-Democrat, February 7, 2019.
5. Brian Fitzpatrick and Stephanie Wein, “Guest Opinion: It’s clearer than ever that we need our parks and green spaces,” Bucks County Courier Times, July 11, 2020