Danita Delimont via Getty Images Flathead National Forest, in western Montana, is one of hundreds of projects around the country funded by the Land and Water Conservation Fund. The Land and Water Conservation Fund, established in 1964, uses offshore fossil-fuel revenue to acquire land and establish and protect parks, wildlife refuges, forests and important wildlife habitat. Funding lapsed in late September, but a bipartisan public lands package passed by both chambers of Congress last month would permanently reauthorize the fund. Last month, Bernhardt took to Twitter to applaud the Senate’s passage of the sweeping public lands bill. “The Trump Administration fully supports reauthorizing #LWCF and we included it in our budget last year,” he wrote.

Source: Huffington Post March 11, 2019 23:26 UTC