The California Coastal National Monument started with 1,711 acres of donated land, then expanded with the help of funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Now it offers unique coastal habitat for marine-dependent wildlife and vegetation along the California coastline. Credit: David Ledig/Bureau of Land Management The partisanship poisoning Washington made it hard to imagine the sharply divided Congress coming together over anything in this year, let alone environmental legislation. And fallout from the pandemic made it seem even more unlikely that Democrats and Republicans could agree on something like spending hundreds of millions of dollars on parks and conservation. But it did happen. Congress passed the historic Great American Outdoors Act and President Donald Trump signed it into law last summer, three months before Election Day. The historic law guarantees that the popular Land and Water Conservation Fund will get $900 million each year for parks and […]