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September 30, 2015
The GOP vs national parks
Think Progress - Barely 24 hours after Pope Francis appealed to U.S. lawmakers to help protect “our common home,” Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) announced that he intends this week to kill the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which is known as America’s best parks program. The move — which is expected to succeed — places dozens of U.S. national parks at heightened risk of commercial development, including Grand Teton National Park and Gettysburg National Military Park. The LWCF is a budget-neutral program that uses fees from offshore oil and gas development to fund national, state, and local conservation projects.
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