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"I have been lucky enough to make a career of facilitating outdoor recreation, primarily as a fly fishing guide. As a guide, water quality and overall quality of the environment is of paramount importance. Trout is the species of fish that we target most often, and trout require the cleanest and coldest water to thrive. Therefore, if the quality of the environment decreases, my profession and salary will decrease as well. I support full funding of the LWCF to ensure continued protection of the environment around sensitive trout streams and across North Carolina."
- Tim Holcomb, forester
Western North Carolina,
Fishing Guide
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- December 17, 2011 Conservation, Business and Sportsmen Groups Applaud Congressional Efforts to Protect LWCF Funding in FY12 Budget
- July 25, 2011- New Bipartisan Poll Shows Overwhelming Support Across America for Land and Water Conservation Fund
- July 13, 2011- National Bipartisan Poll Memo
- May 31, 2011- Over One-Third of the U.S. House of Representatives Sign Letter Supporting Funding for LWCF
- April 14, 2011- Conrad Anchor Testimony Release
- December 20, 2010 - Senate Urged to Join House and Pass Bill with Full Funding for Conservation Program »
- August 3, 2010 - Senate Urged to Join House and Pass Bill with Full Funding for Conservation Program »
- July 15, 2010 - House Committee Passes Bill Securing Funding for Conservation and Recreation Program »
- April 16, 2010 - America's Great Outdoors Conference Focuses on Need for Vital Land, Recreation Funding »
- February 1, 2010 - Obama's Budget Includes Key Funding for Land & Water »
- November 6, 2009 - Senate Bill Would Fulfill Longstanding Promise for Conservation and Recreation Program »
- September 17 , 2009 - Coalition Supports Conservation at House Hearing »
Senate should follow House lead on conservation bill
Gazette.com
Maryland Community Newspapers Online
By: Nat Williams, TNC (Maryland)
I was pleased to see the recent oil spill response bill (CLEAR Act) pass the U.S. House of Representatives with full funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) included. All of us should take a moment to thank Congressman Elijah Cummings for his vote and his part in building bipartisan consensus in this hard-won victory.
The CLEAR bill is important on many levels. While its overarching purpose is to improve safety standards for offshore drilling, it goes even further, through the LWCF, to protect our country's most valuable natural areas.
It will help Americans enjoy healthy land and clean water, and support jobs and economies through tourism and outdoor recreation. For us in the Chesapeake Bay region, this bill can be an important tool to help the health of the Bay.
In Maryland, LWCF has been used to protect Blackwater and Patuxent National Wildlife refuges, Assateague seashore and other natural treasures.
Protecting these and the rest of the nation's valuable land and water is not only common sense, it is a necessity.
I urge Sens. Benjamin Cardin and Barbara Mikulski to support and pass a comprehensive bill similar to the House's CLEAR Act, which moves our country closer to a framework for restoration of the Gulf of Mexico and provides for an ocean trust fund and for full and permanent funding for the LWCF.
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