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Help protect Transportation Enhancements funding!

Your immediate action is needed to protect Transportation Enhancements (TE), your state's leading source of trail funding.

Right now, your Governor is deciding which of your state's transportation dollars to forfeit in response to a $3.47 billion national transportation budget cut mandated by Congress. Last year, in dealing with similar federal orders, states slashed their TE programs-- by far the nation's largest funding source for trails, walking, biking and historic preservation.

TE cuts in 2006 were six times greater than the previous fourteen years' cuts combined. We lost over $600 million from the TE program.

TE has funded more than 10,000 trail projects since 1992 (including 1,200 rail-trails). Cuts not only impact future trails, they cripple existing trails dependent on TE funds.

By April 18, your Governor will decide how to apply this cut to your state's transportation budget. If not fairly allocated, this could be the end of programs that fund trails, walking and biking in your state. PLEASE ask your Governor to protect trail funding!

Learn more about this issue and how to TAKE ACTION by visiting the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy's website at http://support.railstotrails.org/enhancements.

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