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Conservation, Outdoor Groups Call On New Mexico Legislature To Grant Outdoor Recreation Division Budget
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ALBUQUERQUE New Mexico Wild and dozens of other conservation and outdoor recreation nonprofit organizations have submitted a letter urging the Senate Finance and House Appropriations and Finance Committees to support the New Mexico Outdoor Recreation Division’s (ORD) special appropriations request of $1.025 million for the Outdoor Equity Fund and $3.22 million for the Great New Mexico Trails Package. ORD has made the appropriations requests as emergency responses to the current public health and economic crises.
“The funds requested by the Outdoor Recreation Division would make New Mexico’s outdoor spaces more accessible and equitable and would help create jobs in an economy that has been hindered by a sustained global pandemic,” said Brittany Fallon, Policy Director at New Mexico Wild. “The legislators we are addressing have the ability to make a signifi