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Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, addressed resource and recreation planners from around the country
With the help of local communities, the Obama administration wants to get Americans outside and develop a plan to preserve environmental and cultural resources.
BRECKENRIDGE — The Obama administration is committed to implementing its new Great Outdoors strategy and is working toward that goal with the formation of an interagency council to make sure that various federal agencies are collaborating efficiently on the AGO initiatives.
That was the message heard by scores of leading recreation and resource planners in Breckenridge last week, as Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality address the annual conference of the National Association of Resource Recreation Planners at Beaver Run resort.
Sutley said the real solutions will come from local communities across the country and the federal government will try and support those efforts, in part by calling for full funding of the Land and Water Conservation fund for only the third time in history. (more…)
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