abstract:The United States' Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) is a Federal program that was established by Act of Congress in 1964 to provide funds and matching grants to federal, state and local governments for the acquisition of land and water, and easements on land and water, for the benefit of all Americans.Land and Water Conservation Fund, Lands and Realty Management, USDA Forest Service The main emphases of the fund are recreation and the protection of national natural treasures in the forms of parks and protected forest and wildlife areas.
The backstory: since the 1970s the LandandWaterConservationFund (which, only semi-ironically, gets its money from federal royalties from offshore oil and gas drilling) has given money to local governments for parks.