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24 GREAT OUTDOORS AMERICA Finding the most efficient route to the summit is a challenge, whether scaling a rock face or making optimum use of conservation funds. Currently there is no strategy to define a national network of protected land and water resources. Gordon Wiltsie / National Geographic Stock
Overcoming Roadblocks to Effectiveness and Efficiency Conservation dollars often do not deliver their full benefit because of a lack of coordination and fragmented planning, but new coordinating mechanisms and new geospatial planning tools can help overcome these hurdles. Though many consider conservation projects a plus no matter where they occur, haphazard conservation can be as problematic as haphazard development. Multiple public programs with money from multiple sources tend to yield fragmented results and raise a fundamental question: have these funds been effectively and efficiently spent? Ideally, investments in land and water conservation might be guided by an overarching vision or strategy that helps set priorities and commits resources to these priorities. Such a strategy would identify lands of national and state significance not yet protected. It would seek to leverage and facilitate investments by states and localities, land trusts, private landowners, and others. But the country has no such road map that spells out what a completed network of protected land and water resources might look like, let alone consensus estimates of what that might cost. Currently, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, in cooperation with state fish and wildlife agencies, is attempting to define what a nationwide network of wildlife habitat might look like, as one element of such a vision, Chapter 4 and what it would take in time and money to implement it. As important as each of the federal programs noted in a previous chapter may be, they lack coordinated focus to achieve land and water conservation benefits or increase recreation opportunities. No agency of the federal government has the broad mandate or perspective, let alone sufficient staff and other resources or the incentive, to take on the full range of functions needed to protect and provide outdoor resources and relate these to other national priorities in health, education, job creation, community livability, and the like. The LWCF is buried within the National Park Service bureaucracy. Parks Like these visitors to Yosemite, <strong>American</strong>s treasure the outdoors. In an increasingly complex society, it will take smart leadership and innovative technology to manage the future. Tim Fitzharris / National Geographic Stock OVERCOMING ROADBLOCKS 25
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Page 3 and 4: Foreword The Outdoor Resources Revi
Page 5 and 6: John Burcham / National Geographic
Page 7 and 8: Families that play together stay to
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Page 11 and 12: • Using the Migratory Bird Conser
Page 13 and 14: What ORRG Found Keeping outdoor res
Page 15 and 16: increases are boating, kayaking, dr
Page 17 and 18: Disparate Federal Funding Sources O
Page 19 and 20: Among them: Department of Transport
Page 21 and 22: The Gap in State and Local Funding
Page 23 and 24: State Programs Use a Variety of Fun
Page 25: Maryland Open Space Program The Out
Page 29 and 30: Carr Clifton / National Geographic
Page 31 and 32: GIS Technology Can Further Conserva
Page 33 and 34: Childhood obesity has reached alarm
Page 35 and 36: outdoor learning. Cell phones progr
Page 37 and 38: The Growing Role of Private Steward
Page 39 and 40: The private, for-profit recreation
Page 41 and 42: Landscape Conservation: An Effectiv
Page 43 and 44: The U.S. Forest Service Embraces La
Page 45 and 46: as an initiative to protect wetland
Page 47 and 48: Threats from Climate Change Climate
Page 49 and 50: Conflicts over Public Land Use Conf
Page 51 and 52: Recommendations: A Policy Agenda fo
Page 53 and 54: An increment of the Land and Water
Page 55 and 56: Interagency Cooperation across the
Page 57 and 58: • new excise taxes for conservati
Page 59 and 60: MEMBER REPRESENTATIVES Bob Dulli De

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