land and water conservation fund

Rep. Tipton says he’ll support reauthorization of federal conservation fund

Aug 23, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

VAIL – Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton of Cortez said Thursday he will support permanent reauthorization and full funding for the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), ending months of speculation about his position. The fund mostly draws on revenue from uses offshore-drilling fees to help pay to acquire land, water and wetlands for…
Gardner, Bennet help find work-around to save conservation fund

Jul 25, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

A handful of bipartisan members of the U.S. Senate Tuesday came up with a different way to make permanent the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which helps pay for outdoor projects in Colorado and elsewhere, by inserting it into a required federal spending bill. The LWCF gets his money from federal oil and gas…
Hickenlooper pleads for survival of land and water conservation fund

Jul 24, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

Gov. John Hickenlooper sent a plea Tuesday to Colorado’s congressional delegation, urging them to push for full funding of the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). The fund, which relies on federal oil and gas drilling lease revenues from offshore sites rather than tax revenue, was envisioned by President Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s…
INSIGHTS | Left won’t take Gardner at his word on support for parks

Jul 23, 2018

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JOEY BUNCH

Environmentalists are hitting U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner where it hurts him most: On Colorado’s great outdoors. Part of the charm and, I’d argue, success of the Republican farm boy from small-town Yuma is his affability, and the inability of the left to get his goat. But his camp has fought back against the suggestion that…
Bennet joins bipartisan Senate push to renew conservation fund

Jun 19, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, including Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet, plan to launch what they describe as a 100-day campaign to save a federal conservation fund that helps pay for parks and other public facilities – a program that President Donald Trump wants to slash. If you’ve ever visited the Cheyenne Mountain visitor center,…
Q&A with Jen Clanahan: ‘I want to protect my daughter and her future’

Apr 23, 2018

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Mom knows best; most of us learned that lesson growing up – though we probably didn’t get around to admitting it until years later. Jen Clanahan, a mom herself, learned that same lesson and decided to take it to a whole new level. Politically active and environmentally activist, she and some like-minded moms came up…
Cory Gardner honored as Friend of the Outdoor Industry by leading trade association

Apr 26, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner is one of four recipients of the Outdoor Industry Association’s 2017 Friend of the Outdoor Industry Awards, the Boulder-based trade organization said Wednesday. Gardner, a Yuma Republican, and his fellow lead sponsors of the Outdoor Recreation Jobs and Economic Impact Act are being recognized as champions of the industry and for…
Colorado senators support extending nation’s main conservation program

Apr 21, 2017

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Adam McCoy

There’s bipartisan support for a bill that would permanently reinstitute a longstanding conservation measure, protecting the nation’s parks and wildlife refuges from development. Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner are co-sponsors of a piece of legislation introduced earlier this month by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) that would permanently reauthorize the Land and Water…