Act Now to Protect our Greenspaces

New York State is home to beautiful and diverse natural areas, from 1,000-acre parks to priceless urban pocket greenspaces. For over 50 years, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has helped to ensure that we protect these natural areas and the wildlife within them.

During the past five decades, New York has received approximately $319 million from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, protecting places such as the 17,500-acre Sterling Forest tract and the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site. The LWCF has funded sustainable forest operations where New Yorkers work, wildlife preserves where New Yorkers fish and hunt, the restoration of historic sites where we learn, and ballfields and community parks where our children play. This, in turn, supports New York’s outdoor recreation industry, which contributes $33.8 billion annually to New York’s economy.

Despite its half century of successes, the LWCF is in jeopardy. If Congress does not act, the LWCF will expire on September 30. Reauthorizing the LWCF costs New Yorkers nothing; LWCF revenue simply takes a small percentage of revenue from offshore oil leases to support our nation’s lands. Continuing to fund the LWCF is a bipartisan issue that all New Yorkers—whether urban, rural, or somewhere in between—can get behind.

Please contact your Congressional Representative TODAY asking him or her to support reauthorization of the LWCF. Keep our streams, mountains, fields, and urban parks places where all New Yorkers can experience the natural world, learn, and play.



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