John,
Late last week, the Senate decided to cut critical conservation funding by $435 million.
John, this is an outrage. The Senate’s proposal shortchanges our public lands and waters, and falls short of the pressing funding needs for important local, state, and federal efforts aimed at supporting public lands. We need to stop them now!
Urge your members of Congress to reverse this devastating cut to conservation funding before it’s too late!
Some of our most beautiful landscapes are preserved thanks to conservation funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). Since the program was created in 1964, it has protected 45,000 state and local park projects across the country! Without this essential funding for public lands, incredible places like Everglades National Park (pictured below) — visited by a million people each year and home to the endangered manatee — would be at risk of reckless development.
This cut to conservation funding is completely out of line with American values. Conserving our public lands should not be an issue to debate. We need your help to see to it that Congress stops cheating the Land and Water Conservation Fund out of the money it is entitled to and so desperately needs.
Take action and urge your members of Congress to fight against this budget cut now!
Thank you for taking a stand to protect our cherished public lands.
Jordan Schreiber
Director of Advocacy, The Trust for Public Land
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