Why every acre counts to stop global warming  Resurrection
Roadless Area, Chugach National Forest, Alaska. Photo by John
Schoen.  We’re losing 6,000 acres of open space per day — the
equivalent of two Rhode Islands per year — and you can almost
feel the Earth’s thermostat inching up a fraction each day. If
we want to have any hope of slowing, let alone reversing, these
trends, our country needs to take bold action. Perhaps bolder
than we’ve ever attempted. Big problems clearly require serious
solutions.  One step we can take in that direction to put some
real muscle into the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF),
the premier federal program for buying open space and creating
parks, forests, wildlife habitat, and recreation areas for
Americans across the country.  Since its creation in 1965, LWCF
funding has been used to safeguard some of America’s most iconic
places, including Redwood National Park, Valley Forge National
Historical Park, the Appalachian Trail National Scenic Trail and
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