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Conservation Funding
The Draining of Funds for the Michigan DNR & DEQ
Michigan's state conservation agencies, the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Environmental Quality, are vastly and disproportionately under-funded. Without critical funding, Michigan's Great Lakes, state lands, and wildlife are in peril.
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A 2007 report released by Michigan LCV Education Fund found that:
- Conservation Funding Slashed: Since 2001, The DNR and DEQ departments have suffered a 62 percent decline in funding. This decline is not at all proportionate to overall declines in statewide funds: for the same period, total general fund spending dropped only 6 percent.
- DNR and DEQ unfairly targeted: No other state department has lost as much proportional support as DNR and DEQ.
- Family vacationers bear consequences of budget cuts: Cuts in this year's appropriation caused the agency to close 20 of its 138 state forest campgrounds early this summer.
- Communities abandoned: By next year, there will be no more funding for the state's contaminated site cleanup program. Without this program, thousands of toxic sites around the country will be left as is, posing serious public health and environmental risks.
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