{"id":37159,"date":"2022-10-05T10:54:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=37159"},"modified":"2022-10-05T10:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:55:17","slug":"federal-funds-available-through-dnr-for-outdoor-recreation-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/10\/05\/federal-funds-available-through-dnr-for-outdoor-recreation-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Funds Available through DNR for Outdoor Recreation Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Land and Water Conservation Fund Provides Up to $1 Million<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 383px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5557\/15289870625_9895bcd819.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of woman and dog walking along waterside trail\" width=\"373\" height=\"247\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Kristine Lochart<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Department of the Natural Resources (DNR) is now accepting preliminary applications for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/land\/Pages\/LWCF-Grants.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> grant program. This process enables local governments to receive grant funding to\u202fcreate new outdoor recreation spaces, reinvigorate existing parks, and form connections between people and the outdoors. DNR is accepting applications through November 1, 2022. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Municipalities and counties are eligible for up to a 50% matching fund assistance from the LWCF, funded by the National Park Service. Project sponsors must match the grant award 1:1 with non-federal dollars. Local matching funds can include money received from DNR through the <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/land\/Pages\/ProgramOpenSpace\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Program Open Space Loca<\/a>l or <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/land\/Pages\/ProgramOpenSpace\/cpp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Parks and Playground<\/a> programs. Funding requests to LWCF can range from $50,000 to $1 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interested jurisdictions should complete and submit project documentation to Andrew Mengel at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:andrew.mengel@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">andrew.mengel@maryland.gov.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Additional details and application information are available on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/land\/Pages\/LWCF-Grants.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland DNR Land and Water Conservation Fund webpage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Land and Water Conservation Fund Provides Up to $1 Million The Maryland Department of the Natural Resources (DNR) is now accepting preliminary applications for the Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) grant program. This process enables local governments to receive grant funding to\u202fcreate new outdoor recreation spaces, reinvigorate existing parks, and form connections between<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/10\/05\/federal-funds-available-through-dnr-for-outdoor-recreation-space\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[3208,3730,5000,3003],"class_list":["post-37159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","tag-community-parks-and-playgrounds-program","tag-land-and-water-conservation-fund","tag-outdoor-recreation","tag-program-open-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37168,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37159\/revisions\/37168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}