Time Running Out to Preserve Fund for Nation’s Land and Water

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Date

Sept. 14, 2015

News Type

Media Highlight

Source

Nonprofit Quarterly

"As Margaret A. Walls, Research Director at Resources for the Future explains, 'The fact that LWCF spending is subject to [an] annual appropriations process remains a sore point for conservation and recreation advocates. Because of this feature of the law, spending has fluctuated over time and has not come close to the $900 million mark since the late 1970s.'"

Topics

Public and Private Lands

Related People

Margaret A. Walls

Senior Fellow; Director, Climate Risks and Resilience Program

Margaret Walls is a senior fellow at RFF. Her current research focuses on issues related to resilience and adaptation to extreme events, ecosystem services, and conservation, parks and public lands.

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