AMC supports the following funding requests for the FY2010 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, including:
- $125 million for the USDA Forest Service Forest Legacy Program
- $450 million for the Department of the Interior Land and Water Conservation Fund (including $325 million for federal-side and $125 million for state-side programs)
- $11 million for the Department of the Interior Highlands Conservation Act
- $10 million for the Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program
These programs are essential to a healthy, happy and thriving populous and provide economic, ecological and recreational benefits to Americans across the country. There is a great need to fund these programs at the above requests and to work towards their full funding. The availability of public open space amid the populous Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions benefits the well-being of the regions’ citizenry and economy.
Below are land protection opportunities that may be fulfilled if the Forest Legacy, Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), and Highlands Conservation Act (HCA) programs receive adequate funding.
FY 2010 Forest Legacy Projects
Katahdin Forest - ME
Rangeley High Peaks - ME
Cardigan Highlands - NH
Mahoosuc Gateway II - NH
Monson Forest Lands - MA
Southern Monadnock Plateau Phase II - MA
Metacoment-Monadnock Forest - MA
Follensby Pond - NY
Tulmeadow Farm - CT
Wolf Hill - CT
Musconetcong and Rockaway Rivers Watersheds - NJ
FY 2010 LWCF Projects
Rachel Carson NWR - ME
White Mountain National Forest - ME/NH
Silvio O. Conte NWR - NH, VT, CT, MA
Lake Umbagog NWR - NH
Mahoosuc Gateway I - NH
Stewart McKinney NWR - CT
Wallkill NWR - NJ
Great Swamp NWR - NJ
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge - MD
Monongahela National Forest - WV
FY 2010 HCA Projects
Ethel Walker II - CT
Naugatuck/Mad River Headwaters - CT
Greater Sterling Forest - NY
Northern Highlands - NJ
Texter Mountain - PA
Learn more about FY10 in the Highlands (PDF, 3.5MB)>>
Learn more about FY10 projects in the Northern Forest (PDF, 2MB)>>
Download a copy of the new report on the Land Water Conservation Fund (PDF)>>
