Secure Trail Maintenance Funding and Defend the LWCF

Please ask Sen. Daines and Sen. Tester, both of whom sit on the appropriations committee, to ensure Congress appropriates the full $1.1 million requested to conduct badly needed trail maintenance in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex and adjacent areas, including the Badger-Two Medicine. While the Department of Agriculture has identified this project as a priority for GAOA funding (Hooray!), the Department has apparently failed to indicate how much funding the project should actually receive. Appropriating the full $1.1 million requested is critical to maintaining our crumbling backcountry trail infrastructure.

Please thank Sen. Tester and Sen. Daines for publicly pushing back against Secretary Bernhardt’s attempt to undermine Congressional-intent in how the Land and Water Conservation Fund operates. Senator Tester issued a letter sharply criticizing Bernhadt’s Order, which undercuts the ability of private landowners to sell their land to the federal government, and it deprioritizes the Bureau of Land Management as a recipient of LWCF funding. Sen. Daines, who co-sponsored the legislation, has also criticized Sec. Bernhardt’s order publicly, only not quite as forcefully as Sen. Tester. Please encourage both of Montana’s Senators to continue to push back against the Administration’s latest attempt to kneecap the LWCF.