Report urges Congress to open access to 9.5M federal acres

摘要

Millions of acres of public lands in the West are surrounded by privately owned parcels and can't be reached by hunters, anglers, hikers and others, according to a new report that urges Congress to use the Land and Water Conservation Fund to resolve the issue.rnThe report, by the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and Missoula, Mont.-based onX, highlights the need for Congress to reauthorize the popular LWCF before it expires at the end of the month.