FOR SALE: America’s Heritage
This urgent petition asks Congress to take immediate action to prevent private development within our national parks.
For the past few years Congress and the Administration have steadily reduced the amount of money available for national parks from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which is one key way the National Park Service acts to protect our national parks from private development—by acquiring land within park boundaries from willing private sellers.
Did you know more than 50 of our national parks are incomplete and have private land within park boundaries?
If we don't acquire these lands soon, there is very little we citizens will be able to do to prevent homes or commercial development from being built—right in the middle of our national parks!
Please sign this petition to Congress now — to tell them to step up and fund these critical land purchases!
National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) is America's foremost advocate for national parks. And our parks are one of our most important national commitments to the preservation of the environment.
The Land and Water Conservation Fund was established in 1965 with its own dedicated funding source. But over the years Congress and the Administration have diverted more and more of those funds to other uses. As a result, funding for Park Service land acquisition has been cut 70% just since 1999!
Earlier this month the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee doubled the Administration's request for LCWF funding to $48 million. And the ten national park examples highlighted on NPCA's map can be purchased for less than $50 million.
Congress could allocate the funds and time they want to, and we could act to protect and preserve many of our most at-risk national parks.
They just need to know that Americans care!
Do we want schoolchildren to experience wildlife and national treasures in our parks—or McMansions and other private developments?
Protecting our national parks is up to all of us!
Please sign the petition to Congress today. See the map for yourself. Share the map and petition with your friends, and ask them to take action!
Sincerely,
Thomas C. Kiernan
President
P.S. NPCA has just prepared a report called "America's Heritage: For Sale," and distributed it to Members of Congress. Now they need to hear from voters like you!
For the past few years Congress and the Administration have steadily reduced the amount of money available for national parks from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which is one key way the National Park Service acts to protect our national parks from private development—by acquiring land within park boundaries from willing private sellers.
Did you know more than 50 of our national parks are incomplete and have private land within park boundaries?
If we don't acquire these lands soon, there is very little we citizens will be able to do to prevent homes or commercial development from being built—right in the middle of our national parks!
Please sign this petition to Congress now — to tell them to step up and fund these critical land purchases!
National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) is America's foremost advocate for national parks. And our parks are one of our most important national commitments to the preservation of the environment.
The Land and Water Conservation Fund was established in 1965 with its own dedicated funding source. But over the years Congress and the Administration have diverted more and more of those funds to other uses. As a result, funding for Park Service land acquisition has been cut 70% just since 1999!
Earlier this month the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee doubled the Administration's request for LCWF funding to $48 million. And the ten national park examples highlighted on NPCA's map can be purchased for less than $50 million.
Congress could allocate the funds and time they want to, and we could act to protect and preserve many of our most at-risk national parks.
They just need to know that Americans care!
Do we want schoolchildren to experience wildlife and national treasures in our parks—or McMansions and other private developments?
Protecting our national parks is up to all of us!
Please sign the petition to Congress today. See the map for yourself. Share the map and petition with your friends, and ask them to take action!
Sincerely,
Thomas C. Kiernan
President
P.S. NPCA has just prepared a report called "America's Heritage: For Sale," and distributed it to Members of Congress. Now they need to hear from voters like you!
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