Today, U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) announced $3,897,814 in federal funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) to support and expand local outdoor recreation in Nevada.
Established by Congress in 1964, the LWCF is a bipartisan program administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior to support conservation and recreation projects across the country. Using zero taxpayer dollars, the LWCF invests earnings from offshore oil and gas leasing. The program supports increased public access to and protection for federal public lands and waters - including national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and recreation areas. It also provides matching grants to Tribal, state, and local governments to support the acquisition and development of land for public parks and other outdoor recreation sites.
The LWCF became a fully permanently funded program in the Great American Outdoors Act in August 2020.
