Outdoor recreation economy suffers from shutdown

CARLA FISHER and SHANNON HUGHES
1 hr ago

... Montana’s gateway communities made us proud when they volunteered to clean toilets and pick up trash overflowing in Yellowstone National Park thanks to the government shutdown. While they were glad to pitch in, cleaning up the government’s mess is not a sustainable path toward economic growth. The cost of picking up the pieces after a shutdown will now be the burden of communities across the country, a result of Congress’ inability to work towards a wise solution to put the government back to work. From a business perspective, this is nothing short of fiscally irresponsible ...

Business for Montana’s Outdoors represents over 200 members from dozens of industries that are critical pieces of Montana’s $7.1 billion outdoor recreation economy, and the 71,000 related jobs ...

We venture to say that last year’s Congress was one of the worst for outdoor recreation in America’s history. Case in point: allowing the Land and Water Conservation Fund — widely billed as our nation’s most effective, bipartisan conservation tool — to expire in October. Every day that LWCF is not authorized, $2.4 million for outdoor recreation and conservation gains is lost ...

https://missoulian.com/opinion/columnists/outdoor-recreation-economy-suffers-from-shutdown-senator-daines-can-do/article_1d95153d-d66f-572c-a731-0c2e9ac1913a.html