Conservation Funding on Chopping Block

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As Washington seeks ways to shrink the national debt, Republicans propose deep cuts to public lands programs. A House bill for next year’s budget would drain funding for new land purchases, and a five-year plan would cut funding for all natural resources and environment programs by more than 40 percent. Living on Earth’s Washington correspondent Mitra Taj reports on concerns that spending cuts could leave the country with a nature deficit.

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