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From Meadie Ders, World News Headquarters in Boseman, Montana, this is Cal's We Can Review

with Ryan, Cal, Calan.

Now here's Cal.

Following President Trump's public declaration of support last week for permanently funding

the popular Land and Water Conservation Fund and addressing the public land maintenance

backlog, a bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill to do just that.

S-3422, the Great American Outdoors Act, introduced March 9th, would dedicate the full 900

million annually to the Land and Water Conservation Fund, as well as providing an additional

$1.9 billion annually to address massive maintenance backlogs on federal public lands and

facilities.

Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, one of the original sponsors of the legislation,

called it a quote, once in a lifetime deal in an exclusive interview with the Meadie Ders.

The Land and Water Conservation Fund passed in the early 60s, but in recent years, the

best we've done is to fund it at about half.

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