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Report: Stop Under-Funding LWCF, It Hurts MT

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Friday, September 5, 2014   

MISSOULA, Mont. - Birthday No. 50 was this week for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

The money, which comes from offshore oil and gas royalties, has been used for parks, trails, sport fields, open spaces and recreation access across the nation. In Montana, the funds also have been used for conservation easements to preserve habitat and access for hunting and fishing - with a case study of the Tenderfoot Creek region in a new report issued to mark the fund's 50th.

Every time money comes to the state from the fund, said Bruce Farling, executive director of Montana Trout Unlimited, the local economy blossoms.

"Every dollar we've spent of LWCF," he said, "has benefited anglers and hunters and local communities - local community health - as well as our tourism community."

The report calls for full allocation for the fund. Congress has diverted money from the fund almost every year since it became law.

Conservation groups and city planners know the value of the LWCF, said Whit Fosburgh, president and chief executive of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, which issued the report about the fund benefits, but the grassroots hunting and fishing community might have taken it for granted.

"I think it's the responsibility of every hunter, every fisherman, every outdoorsman in this country to stand up and make their voice heard, and say, 'This is important,' " Fosburgh said. "If Congress hears that from enough people, they will get together and they will do something about this."

The fund is supposed to be reauthorized next year, and Fosburgh called it an opportunity to recommit to the original purpose of the fund, which was to invest in local landscapes to offset damage from offshore drilling.

The report, "The Land and Water Conservation Fund and America's Sportsmen and Women," is online at trcp.org.


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