They tried to but most of the state's news media doesn't know what the hell they're hearing or reporting with the DCNR. To the state's news media it's just the Legislature taking money from another agency.

Maybe only one or two people, one of them being in Mobile, really have any definite inkling about the possibility of losing federal money and what that means. The other media folks who know what it means aren't working in the state's news media anymore.

It's terribly unfortunate, but it probably will take a major lawsuit -- money -- along with the Legislature continuing to steal the dedicated DCNR money and having the agency go to a skeleton crew and close services-parks-etc. before the legislators get a damned clue if they're that stupid to realize the feds won't dick around about yanking the money.