OREGON Our Land, Our Water, Our Heritage

LWCF Funded Places in LWCF Success in Oregon Oregon The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has provided funding Federal Program to help protect some of Oregon’s most special places and ensure Grande Ronde WSR/ACEC recreational access for hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities. Bandon Marsh NWR Oregon has received approximately $322.8 million in LWCF funding Bear Valley NWR over the past five decades, protecting places such as the Columbia Cascade Head NSA Cascade Siskiyou NM River Gorge National Scenic Area, Oregon Coast Wildlife Refuges, *Columbia River Gorge NSA West Eugene Wetlands, Hells Canyon National Recreation Area and Criterion Ranch the Oregon National Historic Trail. Fort Clatsop NMem Hart Mountain Antelope Range Hells Canyon NRA Forest Legacy Program (FLP) grants are also funded under LWCF, to Jacksonville Woodlands Historical Park help protect working forests. The FLP cost-share funding supports John Day Fossil Beds NM timber sector jobs and sustainable forest operations while enhancing John Day National WSR wildlife habitat, water quality and recreation. For example, the FLP Klamath Forest NWR contributed to places such as the South Eugene Hills in Lane County. *Lewis and Clark NHP Malheur NF The FLP assists states and private forest owners to maintain working Mt Hood NF forest lands through matching grants for permanent conservation Nestucca Bay NWR easement and fee acquisitions, and has leveraged approximately $12.5 New River ACEC million in federal funds to invest in Oregon’s forests, while protecting Nez Perce NHP North Umpqua National WSR air and water quality, wildlife habitat, access for recreation and other Paulina Guard Station public benefits provided by forests. Oregon Coastal Refuges Oregon NFs LWCF state assistance grants have further supported hundreds of Oregon City projects across Oregon’s state and local parks including the Tualatin Oregon Trail NHT Oregon Dunes NRA Hills Nature Park in Beaverton to Volunteer Park in Springfield, to Oregon Islands NWR Sawyer Park in Bend and Fern Hill Park in Portland. Owyhee WSR *Pacific Crest NST Economic Benefits *Pacific Northwest Streams Rogue WSR The Outdoor Industry Association has found that active outdoor Sandy River/Oregon NHT recreation generates $16.4 billion annually in consumer spending in Siletz Bay NWR Oregon, supports 172,000 jobs across the state which generate $5.1 Siskiyou NF billion in wages and salaries and produces $749 million annually in Siuslaw NF state and local tax revenue. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that each Snake River Breaks ERMA Steens Mountain year over 1.8 million people Three Sisters Wilderness participated in hunting, fishing, Tualatin NWR and wildlife watching in Oregon Upper Klamath Lake NWR contributing $2 billion to the state *Wallowa-Whitman NF Warner Basin ACEC economy. West Eugene Wetlands Williamette NF Wood River Ranch Yaquina Head Recreation at Hells Canyon NRA Credit: USFS Federal Total $ 239,400,000 Top: Mt Hood NF Credit: USFS SUPPORT FULL AND PERMANENT FUNDING FOR THE LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND Forest Legacy Program LWCF in Oregon $ 12,500,000

Habitat Conservation (Sec.6) Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area $ 9,000,000 The Columbia River Gorge is a spectacular river canyon, 80 miles long State & Local Program and up to 4,000 feet deep, cutting the only sea level route through the Total State Grants $ 61,900,000 Cascade Mountain Range. It is more than a natural wonder; the Gorge is a critical transportation corridor and is home to 75,000 people, Total $ 322,800,000 resource dependent communities, farms and schools. The Gorge offers a multitude of outdoor recreational opportunities, including biking, fishing, camping and canoeing. Sections of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail pass through the Gorge, offering excellent hiking opportunities. LWCF has helped protect many parts of this National Scenic Area, which the Forest Service estimates receives over 2.3 million visitors per year.

Fiscal Year 2020 Agency Priority Project List for Oregon

Agency Project Amount Delegation Oregon NHT Credit: NPS Wyden, BLM Sandy River $500,000 LWCF is a simple idea: that a portion Merkley/Blumenauer of offshore drilling fees should be used to protect important land and BLM Table Rocks SRMA $2,700,000 Wyden, Merkley/Walden water for all Americans. These are NPS Lewis and Clark NHT $2,555,000 Wyden, Merkley/Bonamici not taxpayer dollars. Unfortunately, Merkley, Wyden/DeFazio, the promise of LWCF has been FS Wasson Creek; Siuslaw $4,268,000 broken. The program is authorized to Schrader receive up to $900 million each FS Three Rivers; Siuslaw $720,000 Wyden, Merkley/DeFazio year—but most of these funds have Hood River Forest and Fish been diverted elsewhere. Now is the FLP $5,000,000 Merkley, Wyden/Walden Conservation Project Phase III time to fix this and ensure that funds retained in the LWCF account are FLP Arch Cape Watershed $1,000,000 Wyden, Merkley/Bonamici used for their intended conservation and recreation purposes.

LWCF supports the acquisition of The Fiscal Year 2020 President’s Budget: land and conservation easements to protect our national parks, wildlife The President’s Fiscal Year 2020 Budget proposal would gut the Land refuges, forests, trails, and BLM sites, and Water Conservation Fund, reducing the program's budget by over grants funds to the states for local 105% from enacted levels. Under this proposal, no projects would be and state park needs, protects critical wildlife habitat, watersheds and funded for federal land conservation at America’s National Parks, recreational access, and conserves National Forests, National Wildlife Refuges, and other public lands. working farms, ranches and State grant programs to support local recreation facilities, state parks, forestlands that enhance local wildlife habitat, and other community conservation priorities would economies. also be completely wiped out. Without robust LWCF funding in FY 2020, Oregon’s conservation and outdoor recreation needs could be put on hold or lost forever.

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For more information: Note - All approximate totals derived from appropriations bills Amy Lindholm, [email protected] - Forest Legacy Program & Sec. 6 funded from LWCF starting in 2004