A data-driven look at the Land and Water Conservation Fund’s (LWCF) accomplishments and what is at stake if Congress fails to renew the critical land conservation program. If LWCF expires at the end of September, a minimum of 318,000 acres of deserving lands could be lost to development.
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Aug 23, 2018
Issue: Conservation Funding
Subject: Interior, USFS
By Center for Western Priorities
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