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Zinke Announces Largest Federal Land Investment ‘In The History Of This Country’
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Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced his department will undertake the largest funding initiative into public lands and the national park system in U.S. history Friday.
Zinke sat on a panel with Energy Secretary Rick Perry at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). In his opening remarks, Zinke said his department was pivoting from energy development to fixing and preserving public lands and parks.
“We are going to embark on what’s called Mission 26. It’s the largest investment in our public lands and park system in the history of this country,” Zinke told the crowd at CPAC.
Zinke, who has worked to clear an $11.6 billion backlog on national park maintenance, said Mission 26 would be funded through energy production on federal lands.
“If you are going produce energy on public lands, then I think you should invest in our public lands because I think we have the greatest assets on the face of the planet,” Zinke said.
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