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The new law permanently and fully funds the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and provides funds to address the maintenance backlog in our national parks and other public lands.

The final passage of the Great American Outdoors Act represents the culmination of years of advocacy from ASLA to permanently and fully fund LWCF and address the maintenance backlog in U.S. national parks

ASLA submitted comments strongly opposing this rules change when it was first proposed, and we continue to oppose this assault on the critical environmental protections in NEPA.

Amidst mounting pressure from colleges, universities, and organizations across the country–including strenuous objection from ASLA and CELA–the Trump Administration has abandoned a policy that would have forced international students at U.S. universities, including those studying landscape architecture, to leave the country.

Today, ASLA praised the passage of the Great American Outdoors Act in the United States Senate. The bill, long supported by ASLA, would require Congress to fully and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and create the National Parks and Public Lands Legacy Restorations Fund to help address maintenance backlogs in national parks and public lands.