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Gardner: Progress on BLM move, farm bill and ‘we won’t give up’ on LWCF
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Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Yuma on Saturday updated members of the West Slope advocacy group Club 20 efforts to make Grand Junction the next home of the federal Bureau of Land Management. He also spoke to Colorado Politics about the efforts to renew the Land and Water Conservation Fund (hopeful) and the status of…
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Gardner, Bennet help find work-around to save conservation fund
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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…
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Colorado senators support extending nation’s main conservation program
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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…
