The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. July 23, 2020 Great American Outdoors Act Hailed as Landmark Conservation Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------- The House passed a bipartisan measure to allocate $900 million a year to acquire and preserve more land for public use, and to spend $9.5 billion on the U.S. national parks over the next five years. The National Wildlife Federation described the Great American Outdoors Act as the most significant investment in conservation in decades. .