Report: Recreation funding has 'stagnated or declined'

摘要

Despite an uptick in visitation to public lands and increased participation in outdoor recreation, federal fundinghas failed to keep pace in recent decades, according to a new report from the Property and EnvironmentResearch Center.The Montana-based, free-market environmental think tank examined state and federal spending tied to outdoorrecreation in the report released today."Recent trends suggest that much of the recreation funding available to federal land management agencies haseither stagnated or declined in real terms, even as visitation to many federal lands has been increasing over thelong term," PERC's Tate Watkins wrote in "How We Pay to Play: Funding Outdoor Recreation on Public Lands inthe 21st Century."