3.0.0 1750 2023-01-11T13:50:06Z 2023-01-11T13:50:06Z Senate S 2021-05-20 117 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Hearings by 2022-06-07T19:00:04Z Referred to 2021-05-20T18:16:05Z 2022-06-07 sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. Committee 2021-05-20 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2021-05-20 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY N L000571 Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY] Cynthia Lummis R WY M. 2021-05-20 True Public Lands and Natural Resources Congressional oversight Fires Forests, forestry, trees Government studies and investigations Land transfers Land use and conservation Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats Wyoming Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2021-05-20 Introduced in Senate 2021-12-27T14:58:59Z Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2021

This bill designates specified wilderness study areas, special management areas, a National Conservation Area, and other areas in Wyoming.

The bill designates the following areas as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System:

  • certain land within the Encampment River Canyon Wilderness Study Area, to be known as the Encampment River Canyon Wilderness;
  • certain land within the Prospect Mountain Wilderness Study Area, to be known as the Prospect Mountain Wilderness;
  • certain land within the Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness Study Area, to be known as the Upper Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness and the Lower Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness; and
  • certain land within the Bobcat Draw Wilderness Study Area, to be known as the Bobcat Draw Wilderness.

The bill designates the following special management areas:

  • Bennett Mountains,
  • Black Cat,
  • Sweetwater Rocks, and
  • Cedar Mountain.

The Bureau of Land Management shall divide the land within the Dubois Badlands Wilderness Study Area into the Dubois Motorized Recreation Area and the Dubois Badlands National Conservation Area, separating the two with a fence.

The bill designates Fortification Creek, Fraker Mountain, and North Fork as management areas.

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