{"id":1756,"date":"2020-08-04T17:35:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2020-08-04T17:35:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:35:55","slug":"senate-passes-bipartisan-cloture-re-great-american-outdoors-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/senate-passes-bipartisan-cloture-re-great-american-outdoors-act\/","title":{"rendered":"President signs  bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On August 4 the President signed the Great American Outdoors Act.\u00a0 This Act had passed the House and Senate on a huge bi-partisan vote. [The House passed the Act on a\u00a0 bipartisan vote of 310-107.\u00a0 The Senate passed the bill 73-25 on June 17.]<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0 fully and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund at $900 million and address deferred maintenance backlogs at national parks and other public lands. What a win for wildlife, public lands, community parks and trails. \u00a0The public demand for outdoor spaces is evident from the \u00a0robust use of Colorado&#8217;s parks and trails this year. Many organizations including CWF have worked a long time to gain full and permanent funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund. \u00a0Over the years, LWCF has contributed more than $268 million for Colorado&#8217;s public lands, trails and community parks.<\/p>\n<p>It will create jobs in these difficult times and boost the outdoor recreation economy. \u00a0Senator Gardner sponsored this legislation and has worked tirelessly on it for a long time. Senator Bennet is among the co-sponsors. \u00a0We thank them both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On August 4 the President signed the Great American Outdoors Act.\u00a0 This Act had passed the House and Senate on a huge bi-partisan vote. [The House passed the Act on a\u00a0 bipartisan vote of 310-107.\u00a0 The Senate passed the bill 73-25 on June 17.] It\u00a0 fully and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"anons"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}