GOP House Douchecanoes Vote To Cut Land & Water Cons Fund 90%, Then Ask For Funding Under Table

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In February 2011, Rep. Robert Hurt (R-Va.) voted for an amendment by Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) to slash funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund by 90 percent in the House's spending bill. But the next year, Hurt urged the Forest Service to use LWCF money to acquire a 292-acre tract of privately owned forest in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, a proposal he said was strongly backed by hikers on the Appalachian Trail.

"I ask that you show my constituents' views on this issue every consideration as you move forward with your request to acquire the Campbell Tract," Hurt wrote in a letter to forest supervisor Tom Speaks. "I have received support for this acquisition from a number of my constituents, including those in Nelson County communities and others who enjoy recreational use of the Appalachian Trail in the area."

Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) also voted for the Lummis amendment to cut LWCF. But last September, he urged Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell to seek LWCF funding to acquire 1,100 acres of woodlands in Tennessee and North Carolina. The proposal would create roughly 6,000 contiguous acres in the Cherokee and Pisgah national forests and would preserve more than 3 miles of mountaintop ridgelines, he said.

Over the past five years, Hurt, Roe and more than a dozen other Republicans have privately lobbied federal land management agencies to support LWCF projects in their districts, according to a records request to the agencies from Greenwire.

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http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059998186

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1. It'll never be signed into law. But f**k them anyway.

I guess "CONservatism" doesn't apply to pillaging of natural resources.