Trump tweets his support for permanently funding a beloved conservation program
A bipartisan deal would fully fund the LWCF and provide more than $1 billion per year for clearing the maintenance backlogs in our national parks. (NPS.Gov/)This story originally featured on Outdoor Life.President Donald Trump has evidently undergone an election-year conversion on the topic of the Land & Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), pumping new energy into the campaign for full and permanent funding of this critically important access and habitat conservation tool.This week, Trump used his favorite platform—Twitter—to express his enthusiasm for LWCF. He wrote: “I am calling on Congress to send me a Bill that will fully and permanently fund the LWCF and restores our National Parks. When I sign it into law, it will be HISTORIC for our beautiful public lands.”He goes on to thank Sens. Cory Gardner and Steve Daines, whom he called “GREAT Conservative Leaders.”In this highly partisan era, LWCF is one of the relatively few government...