{"id":41287,"date":"2024-04-09T10:57:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T14:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=41287"},"modified":"2024-04-09T10:57:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T14:57:37","slug":"federal-funds-available-for-outdoor-recreation-space-in-maryland-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2024\/04\/09\/federal-funds-available-for-outdoor-recreation-space-in-maryland-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Funds Available for Outdoor Recreation Space in Maryland Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Land and Water Conservation Fund provides up to $1.5 Million for qualifying projects<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/LWCF_logo-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-41291\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/LWCF_logo-1.png\" alt=\"Logo for land and Water Conservation Fund\" width=\"350\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/LWCF_logo-1.png 200w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/LWCF_logo-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>The Maryland Department of the Natural Resources is now accepting preliminary applications for the federal <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/land\/Pages\/LWCF-Grants.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Land and Water Conservation Fund<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">grant program. Through this program, local governments with qualifying projects may apply for $50,000 to $1.5 million to\u202fcreate new outdoor recreation spaces, reinvigorate existing parks, and create connections between people and the outdoors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The department is accepting applications through June 28, 2024.\u00a0 Potential applicants are invited to a webinar at noon on April 23 to learn more about the process. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additional details and application information are available on the Maryland Department of Natural Resources <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/land\/Pages\/LWCF-Grants.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Land and Water Conservation Fund<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> webpage<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DNR will review preliminary applications and invite the highest scoring applicants to create a final application package to be submitted to the National Park Service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Municipalities and counties that qualify can then apply for up to 50% matching fund assistance from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Local matching funds can include money received from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources through the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/land\/pages\/programopenspace\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Program Open Space &#8211; Local<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/land\/Pages\/ProgramOpenSpace\/cpp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Parks and Playgrounds<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> programs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interested jurisdictions should complete and submit project documentation to Molly Pickel at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:molly.pickel@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">molly.pickel@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Land and Water Conservation Fund provides up to $1.5 Million for qualifying projects The Maryland Department of the Natural Resources is now accepting preliminary applications for the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund grant program. Through this program, local governments with qualifying projects may apply for $50,000 to $1.5 million to\u202fcreate new outdoor recreation spaces,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2024\/04\/09\/federal-funds-available-for-outdoor-recreation-space-in-maryland-communities\/\">&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":[957,23],"tags":[3565,3730,5000],"class_list":["post-41287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-land","tag-grants","tag-land-and-water-conservation-fund","tag-outdoor-recreation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41287","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=41287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41293,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41287\/revisions\/41293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}