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Delta By Mark Roeber, rancher from the County, Colorado, Secretary of Public Lands Council If we learned anything from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is to become financially prepared for the unexpected, As we and to wash your hands often. financial care for both our personal and same from hygiene, we should expect the national our elected officials as they set budgets. Unfortunately, the American people are about to be disappointed the as the Senate gears up to change way the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) is funded and abdicate way its responsibility to oversee the spent. hundreds of millions of dollars are Recently the Senate voted to approve the Great American Outdoors (GAO) including Act. The bill does a few things, into – year each million making $900 perpetuity – for LWCF mandatory spending, rather than discretionary.
the LWCF funding percent the mandatory funding allocates 40 removes any oversight to prevent of the total program budget, roughly same financial situation from recurring. to $360 million per year, be used Coloradans should be outraged. of purchase new lands and waters. Handing federal agencies hundreds To put this in perspective, pastureland millions of dollars without any checks – $634/ in the Mountain West averaged and balances will only end in heartache $360 acre in 2018. Using this estimate, user, and for the roughly both for the public land mounting the million could be used to purchase when taxpayer American to a no 567,000 acres of land, equating disrepair of our public lands can land grab bigger than all of Colorado’s longer be ignored. them ‘no.’ national parks combined. Do not misread my concern. I believe result On the surface, LWCF supports I Consequently, these land grabs the Congress’ heart is in the right place. and land a worthy cause. Fifty years ago, federal tracts in poorly managed safeguard just do not believe purchasing - and program began as a long-term water. Increased land acquisition of land without the means to care for American recreational opportunities the costs that come with the regulatory for it achieves desired conservation - result by conserving natural resources. requirements and general upkeep stateoutcomes. I welcome a conversation in Congress split funding two ways: enhance in federal agencies falling behind about how to best conserve and lands. side funding, used for community necessary maintenance of federal the natural resources we have but projects like construction of baseball At the end of 2018, land management good money after bad is not federal and throwing grounds, rodeo deferred in and fields agencies had nearly $20 billion of the solution. We have an opportunity grows funding, used to purchase tracts maintenance, and that figure only to change the trajectory of natural THE OFHowever, federal land for “conservation.” as you add more assets to the list. falls short resource conservation in this country. it became a land grab tool that FICIAL PUBThe sponsors of the GAO Act are the On June 18, the U.S. Senate passed LICATI in meeting its own objective. federal agencies are not that of well aware ON GAO Act sending it to the House OF NC When Congress permanently assets. Each than equipped to take on more BA required Representatives for a vote. Rather extended the LWCF in 2019, it should year agencies seek more appropriations voting on the GAO Act, Congress Congress to annually appropriate actively to care for the lands and resources respect the American people and Act funding, ensuring that individual our they already own. While the GAO engaged safeguard our lands, water, and this down pare members of Congress remained provides some dollars to domestic finances. backlog, in the decisions. The GAO Act strays multi-billion-dollar maintenance The from the intention of lawmakers.
In and would consider LWCF priorities spending levels through the annual give appropriations process, and instead million federal agencies an annual $900 If dollar check with no strings attached. hundreds enacted, federal agencies have purchase of millions of dollars available to to tell vast swaths of land, and no one
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