Posts Tagged ‘federal funds’

3.1.24 – State legislators passed a bill last month that would expand access and make it easier for the state to distribute money from its Land and Conservation Fund.  Senate Bill 169, one of 60-plus bills awaiting a signature from the governor this month, appropriates $10 million from the fund, removes a population cap eligibility…

1.12.24 – New Mexico’s Parks Division has missed a series of deadlines and must forfeit millions of dollars in federal funding intended for outdoor recreation projects for the last three years. Freelance journalist Elizabeth Miller sits down with Michael Casaus, the state director of the Wilderness Society, and asks how those forfeited dollars could have…