During the North Carolina General Assembly’s last session, legislators shied from a vaunted plan to secure a $1 billion bond issue to support land and open-space conservation efforts across the state.
The issue has come up again this week, with state lawmakers saying those funds should come instead from a patchwork of as-yet unspecified sources.
Does the change in funding strategies signal a lack of will in Raleigh, an unwillingness for the state to think big, or a yet more prudent approach to land preservation?
What do you think?
– Kent Priestley, staff writer
