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LWCF Grants (1965-2005)
Over its first 40 years, LWCF has provided more than
$14.4 billion to acquire new federal recreation lands and as grants to
State and local governments. For discussion purposes, the LWCF program can be divided into the "State side" -- that is grants to State and local governments, the primary theme of this site; and, the "Federal
side" -- the portion of the LWCF that buys land in new forests, parks,
wildlife refuges and other recreation areas owned by the national government.
The State Side
40,400
grants to state and local governments over 40 years:
- $3.7 billion, matched for a total of $7.4 billion
- 10,600 grants for acquisition of park and recreation lands, including
3,200 "combination" projects for both land purchase and initial
recreation development
- 26,420 grants for development of recreation
facilities, in addition to the "combination" projects above
- 2,760 grants for redevelopment of older
recreation facilities, including improved access for people with
disabilities
- 641 state planning grants, to produce six
"generations" of analytic studies on recreation potentials, needs,
opportunities and policies
Over
40,000 grants to states and localities have been approved under
the LWCF grants program for acquisition, development and planning
of outdoor recreation opportunities in the United States. Grants
have supported purchase and protection of 3 million acres of recreation
lands and over 29,000 projects to develop basic recreation facilities
in every State and territory of the nation.
Seventy-five
percent of the total funds obligated have gone to locally sponsored
projects to provide close-to-home recreation opportunities that
are readily accessible to America's youth, adults, senior citizens
and the physically or mentally challenged. In addition to the thousands
of smaller recreation areas, grants have helped to acquire and develop
new parks of statewide or national significance such as the Allagash
Wilderness Waterway (Maine), Liberty State Park (New Jersey), the
Willamette River Greenway (Oregon), Platte River Park (Denver),
Herman Brown Park (Houston), and Illinois Beach State Park (Chicago).
The
Federal Side
In
addition to grants to state and local governments, Land & Water
Conservation Fund(LWCF) has provided more than $5.5 billion to acquire
new federal recreation lands. Following are just a few of the areas
added to National park, forest, wildlife refuge, river and trail
systems in the last 35 years, for which all or a major part of land
purchases were funded by the Federal Side of the LWCF. In addition
to new areas, the Fund has helped to expand existing areas through
acquisition of key recreation and conservation sites in almost every
National Forest and Wildlife Refuge east of the Rockies:
- Cape Cod National
Seashore, Massachusetts
- Flaming Gorge
Nat. Recreation Area, Utah, Wyo. (U.S. Forest Service)
- Ozark National
Scenic Riverway, Missouri
- Padre Islands
National Seashore, Texas
- Point Reyes
National Seashore, California
- Assateague
Island National Seashore, Maryland
- Sawtooth National
Recreation Area, Idaho (U.S. Forest Service)
- Cape Lookout
National Seashore, North Carolina
- Gulf Islands
National Seashore, Texas
- North Cascades
National Park, Washington
- Oregon Dunes
National Recreation Area, Oregon (U.S. Forest Service)
- Buffalo National
River, Arkansas
- Indiana Dunes
National Lakeshore, Indiana (Lake Michigan)
- Pictured Rocks
National Lakeshore, Michigan (Lake Superior)
- Redwoods National
Park, California
- Lower Rio
Grande Valley Nat. Wildlife Refuge, Tex.(U.S. Fish and Service)
- Sleeping Bear
Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan (Lake Michigan)
- Apostle Islands
National Lakeshore, Wisconsin (Lake Superior)
- St. Croix
and Lower St. Croix Nat. Scenic Rivers, Minnesota, Wisconsin
- Rio Grande
Wild and Scenic River, Texas
- Appalachian
National Scenic Trail, Maine to Georgia
- North Cascades
National Park, Washington
- Biscayne National
Monument (is now National Park), Florida
- C&O Canal
Nat. Historical Park, Dist. of Columbia, Maryland and West Virginia
- Voyageurs
National Park, Minnesota
- Cumberland
Island National Seashore, Georgia
- Buffalo National
River, Arkansas
- Big Cypress
National Preserve, Florida
- Lower Suwanee
Nat.Wildlife Refuge, Florida (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
- Big Thicket
National Preserve, Texas
- Big South
Fork National River, Kentucky, Tennessee
- Cuyahoga Valley
National Recreation Area, Ohio
- Chicasaw National
Recreation Area, Oklahoma
- Atchafalaya
National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
- Obed Wild
& Scenic River, Tennessee
- Canaveral
National Seashore, Florida
- Congaree Swamp
National Monument, South Carolina
- Lowell National
Historic Park, Massachusetts
- Pinelands
National Reserve, New Jersey
- Delaware National
Scenic River, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
- Chatahoochee
River National Recreation Area, Georgia
- Missouri National
Recreational River, Nebraska, South Dakota
- Jean Lafitte
National Historic Park and Reserve, Louisiana
- Santa Monica
Mountains National Recreation Area, California
- New River
Gorge National River, West Virginia
- Minnesota
Valley Nat. Wildlife Refuge, Minnesota (U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service)
- Martin Luther
King, Jr. National Historic Site, Georgia
- Natchez Trace
National Scenic Trail, Tennessee
- Mississippi
National River and Recreation Area, Minnesota
- Steamtown
National Historic Park, Pennsylvania
- Bluestone
National Scenic River, West Virginia
- Petroglyph
National Monument, New Mexico
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