Coloradoan.com - Full Article
Jacy Marmaduke, jmarmaduke@coloradoan.com
October 29, 2015
A hefty chunk of annual funding for Colorado trails hangs in the balance because of the jeopardized Land and Water Conservation Fund, which recently expired and faces obstacles for renewal in Congress.
A bill to recharge the 50-year-old source of federal money for national and municipal conservation efforts – think parks, trails and playgrounds – is frozen in the U.S. House of Representatives natural resources committee. The committee’s chairman, Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, has blocked hearings on the bill because he wants to revamp it.
Colorado received about $770,000 in stateside funding from LWCF in 2014; $43.4 million went to the entire country and territories.
The Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife divvies the state allocation among local and regional trail projects. The fund made up about 37 percent of its allocations for trail projects statewide this year...
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http://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2015/10/29/colo-trail-funding-risk-federal-fund-expires/74770072/
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