Salazar: Replenish land and water fund

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called on Congress to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund while on a visit to Grand Teton National Park on Tuesday. Salazar’s comments come after Republican members of the House of Representatives attached riders to an appropriations bill that aim to deplete the conservation fund. “The proposals that we have coming through the House of Representatives would essentially decimate the Land and Water Conservation Fund to the lowest level we have seen in modern times,” Salazar said at the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center at Moose. For decades, Congress has plundered the Land and Water Conservation Fund so that it is now owed about $20 billion, Salazar said. “It’s a broken promise to the American people not to fund it,” he said. “My hope is that when Congress comes back, they’ll see that funding the LWCF is important.”...more

Hang in there R's, they can't manage what they've got.