Alan Rowsome, director of conservation funding, gave testimony before the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee. This is one of the committees that determine the annual budgets for National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, and other wild lands.
The fiscal year 2014 budget released by President Obama shows a clear understanding of the economic benefits of conservation, according to The Wilderness Society.
The National Journal recently asked nine opinion leaders what's at stake for the environment as Washington's budget cuts, aka sequestration, go into effect. Wilderness Society President Jamie Williams weighed in.
Spending cuts that are part of the budget sequester, or just “sequestration” could have deep and lasting impacts on America’s wild places. The sequester is a trigger of automatic spending cuts that was passed by Congress in 2011.
With more than 193 million acres of land, America’s national forests are a haven for outdoor recreationists. Over 50 million people use trails within them annually.
Our national forests are damaged from decades of unsustainable logging, road building, wildfire suppression and urbanization. Restoration funding helps keep our national forests standing tall for future generations.
Integrated Resource Restoration is a budgeting experiment designed to help the U.S. Forest Service more effectively plan and implement forest restoration projects.
When it comes to budgeting in Congress, the devil is in the details.
And the devilish detail in the big budget proposal on Capitol Hill this week, authored by Representative Paul Ryan, is a proposal to sell off of millions of acres of our public lands.
