U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is pushing for federal funding to expand parks and protected forest land in Georgia.
In a letter this month to U.S. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore, he asked the agency to prioritize two areas for money from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a federal fund that puts hundreds of millions of dollars a year towards conservation.
Ossoff asked the Forest Service for support in expanding the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest and an area known as the Dugdown Corridor near the Alabama border.
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