On February 10th, 2022 the Appalachian Mountain Club hosted, alongside the Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed and the LWCF Coalition, a webinar explaining the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and how to take advantage of its recent full funding.
There is unprecedented opportunity, given that after many years of advocacy, LWCF will have consistent full funding, for partners to think big and increase the pace of conservation in urban, suburban, and rural areas. But there is also unprecedented need, with a football field’s worth of natural area lost to development every 30 seconds in the US. And there are unprecedented challenges in scaling up a very decentralized program like LWCF, one that relies on community partners coming together to solve complex land-use problems, often with limited expertise and resources to understand the many different tools in the LWCF toolbox, how to write grant applications that are different in every state, where to find match funds, etc. This webinar is one of many efforts by the LWCF Coalition and local conservation leaders to help fill these gaps.
