[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
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[H.R. 1105 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1105

 To designate as wilderness, wild and scenic rivers, national park and 
    preserve study areas, wild land recovery areas, and biological 
   connecting corridors certain public lands in the States of Idaho, 
   Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming, and for other purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 5, 2003

Mr. Shays (for himself, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Honda, Mr. Leach, Mr. Kildee, 
 Ms. Norton, Mr. Wexler, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Neal of Massachusetts, Mr. 
  Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Ms. Linda T. Sanchez of 
     California, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Olver, Mr. George Miller of 
California, Mr. Evans, Ms. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Ford, Mr. Holt, Mrs. 
 Jones of Ohio, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Becerra, Ms. Lee, Mr. Gutierrez, Ms. 
  Slaughter, Mr. Towns, Mr. Delahunt, Mr. Capuano, Ms. Woolsey, Mrs. 
 Davis of California, Ms. Harman, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Ms. Berkley, 
Mr. Weiner, Ms. Corrine Brown of Florida, Mr. Udall of New Mexico, Mr. 
Lantos, Mr. Deutsch, Ms. McCarthy of Missouri, Mr. Nadler, Mrs. Johnson 
 of Connecticut, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Markey, Ms. Hooley of Oregon, Mr. 
Serrano, Mr. Hoeffel, Ms. Millender-McDonald, Mr. Boehlert, Mr. Schiff, 
   Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Payne, Mr. LoBiondo, Mr. 
 Hinchey, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Meeks of New York, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. Frost, 
    Mr. Udall of Colorado, Mr. Clay, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. 
 Michaud, Mr. McNulty, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Inslee, Mr. Baird, Mr. Matsui, 
  Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Stark, Ms. McCollum, Ms. Solis, Mr. 
Fattah, Mrs. Capps, Mr. Saxton, Mrs. Tauscher, Mr. Bishop of New York, 
Mr. Tierney, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Greenwood, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. 
  Kucinich, Mr. Allen, Mr. Rothman, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Andrews, Mr. 
 Costello, Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, Mr. Kennedy of Rhode Island, Mr. 
 Meehan, Mr. Israel, Mr. Owens, Mr. Rahall, Mr. Moore, Mr. Thompson of 
California, Mrs. McCarthy of New York, Mr. Berman, Mr. Jefferson, Mrs. 
Napolitano, Mr. Strickland, Mr. Spratt, Mr. Grijalva, Mrs. Christensen, 
Mr. Pallone, Mr. Faleomavaega, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Hastings 
 of Florida, Mr. Waxman, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Smith of 
  New Jersey, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, and Mr. 
    Walsh) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To designate as wilderness, wild and scenic rivers, national park and 
    preserve study areas, wild land recovery areas, and biological 
   connecting corridors certain public lands in the States of Idaho, 
   Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Northern Rockies 
Ecosystem Protection Act''.
    (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents of this Act is as 
follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Sec. 3. Purposes.
Sec. 4. Definitions.
                TITLE I--DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS

Sec. 101. Designation of certain National Forest System lands and other 
                            public lands as wilderness.
Sec. 102. Greater Glacier/Northern Continental Divide ecosystem.
Sec. 103. Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.
Sec. 104. Greater Salmon/Selway ecosystem.
Sec. 105. Greater Cabinet/Yaak/Selkirk ecosystem.
Sec. 106. Islands in the Sky Wilderness.
Sec. 107. Administration.
Sec. 108. Blackfeet Wilderness.
Sec. 109. Water.
               TITLE II--BIOLOGICAL CONNECTING CORRIDORS

Sec. 201. Findings.
Sec. 202. Designation of biological connecting corridors.
Sec. 203. Treatment of biological connecting corridors.
Sec. 204. Applicability of title.
Sec. 205. Cooperative agreements and land trades and acquisitions.
Sec. 206. Exemption of certain roads and highways.
       TITLE III--NATIONAL PARKS, PRESERVES, AND RELATED STUDIES

Sec. 301. Hells Canyon/Chief Joseph National Preserve.
Sec. 302. Flathead National Park and Preserve study.
             TITLE IV--WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS DESIGNATIONS

Sec. 401. Designation of wild and scenic rivers in Idaho, Montana, and 
                            Wyoming.
       TITLE V--NATIONAL WILDLAND RESTORATION AND RECOVERY SYSTEM

Sec. 501. Findings.
Sec. 502. National Wildland Restoration and Recovery System.
Sec. 503. Management of Recovery System.
Sec. 504. National Wildland Recovery Corps.
                TITLE VI--IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING

Sec. 601. Implementation report.
Sec. 602. Interagency team.
Sec. 603. Roadless lands evaluation.
Sec. 604. Native American uses.
Sec. 605. Cultural resources.
                    TITLE VII--RULES OF CONSTRUCTION

Sec. 701. Water rights.
Sec. 702. Future designations.
Sec. 703. Indian tribes.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds as follows:
            (1) Many areas of undeveloped National Forest System lands 
        in the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and 
        Wyoming possess outstanding natural characteristics which give 
        them high values as wilderness, parks, and wild and scenic 
        rivers and will, if properly preserved, be an enduring resource 
        of wilderness, wild land areas, and biodiversity for the 
        benefit of the American people.
            (2) The Northern Rockies Bioregion contains the most 
        diverse array of wild lands remaining south of Canada, 
        providing sanctuary for a host of species listed as threatened 
        or endangered under section 4(c) of the Endangered Species Act 
        of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533(c)). These national interest public 
        lands are among the most popular wild lands in the Nation, 
        embracing greater ecosystems and national treasures such as the 
        Greater Yellowstone, Greater Glacier/Northern Continental 
        Divide, Greater Hells Canyon/Wallowa, Greater Salmon/Selway, 
        and Greater Cabinet/Yaak/Selkirk ecosystems. The headwaters for 
        nearly two-thirds of the rivers of North America originate in 
the Northern Rockies, sending waters to three oceans and providing 
critical supplies of clean water for wildlife and other users.
            (3) The wildlife treasures of the Northern Rockies are of 
        international significance and contain remarkably intact large 
        mammalian fauna and rare and unique plant life.
            (4) Wildlife habitat fragmentation due to roadbuilding, 
        timber harvest, mining, oil and gas exploration, lack of 
        interagency cooperation, and other activities has severe 
        effects on the wildlife populations (including those listed as 
        threatened or endangered under section 4(c) of the Endangered 
        Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533(c))) and their habitat, the 
        water quality, the ancient forests, and the greater ecosystems 
        of the Northern Rockies Bioregion. Continued fragmentation and 
        development of the remaining roadless and essentially roadless 
        ecosystems and biological connectors of the Northern Rockies 
        would cause a loss to the Nation of an entire wild land region 
        and of the only remaining areas south of Canada still pristine 
        enough to support populations of caribou, gray wolves, grizzly 
        bears, anadromous fish, and numerous other rare and endangered 
        plant and animal life all in one intact bioregion.
            (5) Since the 1936 roadless area inventory completed by Bob 
        Marshall, millions of acres of roadless wild lands have been 
        developed in the Northern Rockies. Extensive fragmentation of 
        wild lands and wildlife habitat has resulted in the listing of 
        several species as threatened or endangered and reduced the 
        numbers and range of many others, including anadromous fish.
            (6) A review of the current situation in the Northern 
        Rockies has revealed the urgent need for an ecological reserve 
        system for the Northern Rockies Bioregion, which includes core 
        ecosystem reserve areas and biological connecting corridors 
        necessary to ensure wildlife movements and genetic interchange 
        between the core reserve areas.
            (7) The economic value to the Nation of most of these 
        undeveloped areas, left in their natural state, greatly exceeds 
        any potential return to the Treasury of the United States from 
        timber harvest and development. If current Federal land 
        management in the Northern Rockies continues to result in the 
        development of roadless areas, the American public will be 
        using its tax dollars to fund permanent reductions in 
        wilderness, water quality, fish and wildlife habitat, and 
        species and biological diversity.
            (8) The congressional review of roadless areas within 
        National Forest System lands in the States of Idaho, Montana, 
        Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming has identified areas which, on 
        the basis of their land form, ecosystem, associated fish and 
        wildlife, economic value, and location will help to fulfill the 
        role of the United States Forest Service to ensure a quality 
        National Wilderness Preservation System. The review has 
        identified other areas which may have outstanding values as 
        national parks and preserves and wild and scenic rivers. The 
        review has also identified areas which may not possess 
        outstanding wilderness attributes and should not now be 
        designated as components of the National Wilderness 
        Preservation System, but which should be studied to determine 
        their role in maintaining biological diversity in the Northern 
        Rockies.
            (9) Many areas of National Forest System lands have been 
        damaged and their productivity reduced by unwise development 
        practices which have also impaired ecosystem function and 
        biological diversity. The Island Park area adjacent to 
        Yellowstone National Park contains large clear-cut areas right 
        up to the park boundary. Efforts should be made to return these 
        areas to their former ecological health and native diversity by 
        designating them as National Wildland Restoration and Recovery 
        areas. These efforts should seek to ensure that vital ecosystem 
        components are restored, especially in areas where wildlife 
        travel corridors and native fish and wildlife populations have 
        been damaged or eliminated. Restoration efforts should seek to 
        ensure and maintain genetic interchange, biological diversity, 
        and restoration of native species diversity throughout the 
        Northern Rockies Bioregion.
            (10) Federal agencies entrusted with managing the natural 
        resources of the Northern Rockies Bioregion operate under 
        contradictory congressional mandates, and thus are in 
        dissension over management policies which involve common 
        resources and greater ecosystems. Existing agency structures 
        and regulatory mechanisms have proven unsatisfactory for 
        responsible management of nationally important ecosystems on 
        public lands. Existing laws and regulations have not been 
        sufficient to establish and maintain agency accountability for 
        public resources.
            (11) This Act does not affect lands that are in private 
        ownership.

SEC. 3. PURPOSES.

    (a) Designations.--The purposes of this Act are--
            (1) to designate certain National Forest System lands and 
        Federal lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land 
        Management in the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, 
        and Wyoming as components of the National Wilderness 
        Preservation System;
            (2) to designate certain National Forest System lands in 
        the States of Montana, Oregon, and Idaho as national park and 
        preserve study areas;
            (3) to designate certain National Forest System lands and 
        watercourses in the States of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming as 
        components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System;
            (4) to establish a pilot system of National Wildland 
        Restoration and Recovery Areas and a Wildlands Recovery Corps 
        to help restore biological diversity and native species; and
            (5) to establish a system of biological connecting 
        corridors between the core ecosystems in the Northern Rockies 
        Bioregion.
    (b) Purpose of Designations.--The designations made by this Act are 
made in order to--
            (1) promote, perpetuate, and preserve the wilderness 
        character of the land;
            (2) protect water quality, watersheds, and wildlife 
        habitat, including that of species listed as threatened or 
        endangered under section 4(c) of the Endangered Species Act of 
        1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533(c));
            (3) protect the ecological integrity and contiguity of 
        major wild land ecosystems and their interconnecting corridors 
        identified by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and 
        other sources;
            (4) protect and maintain biological and native species 
        diversity;
            (5) promote and ensure interagency cooperation in the 
        implementation of integrated, holistic ecosystem management and 
        protection of the ecosystems and corridors covered by this Act 
        based upon principles from conservation biology;
            (6) preserve scenic, historic, and cultural resources;
            (7) promote scientific research, primitive recreation, 
        solitude, physical and mental challenge, and inspiration for 
        the benefit of all of the American people;
            (8) avoid the misinvestment of scarce capital in lands of 
        marginal timber value; and
            (9) promote ecologically and economically sustainable 
        management in the Northern Rockies Bioregion.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act:
            (1) Development.--The term ``development'' means activities 
        that eliminate the roadless and wilderness characteristics of 
        the land and includes ski resort facilities and such activities 
        as roadbuilding, timber harvest, mining, and oil and gas 
        drilling.
            (2) Entry.--The term ``entry'' means to enter a roadless 
        area for purposes of development and associated activities, 
        such as roadbuilding, timber harvest, mining, or other such 
        activities which eliminate the roadless character of the land.
            (3) Greater ecosystem.--The term ``greater ecosystem'', 
        when used in conjunction with the specific ecosystems protected 
        under this Act, means the ecological land units of sufficient 
        scale to support and maintain populations of large vertebrate 
        species and the other native plant and animal species of the 
        area. These units are comprised of lands which are similar in 
        regards to topography, climate, and plant and animal species. 
        The ecosystems in the Northern Rockies are also defined in 
        terms of the habitat of wildlife indicator species listed as 
        threatened or endangered under section 4(c) of the Endangered 
        Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533(c)), including grizzly 
        bear, gray wolf, bald eagle, and caribou, and have been 
        depicted on maps published by Federal agencies.
            (4) Northern rockies bioregion.--The term ``Northern 
        Rockies Bioregion'' means the portion of the Northern Rocky 
        Mountains in the States of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Oregon, and 
        Washington, so referred to on maps referred to in this Act.
            (5) Recovery.--The term ``recovery'' means the restoration 
        of lands damaged by land management activities to a condition 
        as close as possible to the condition of the lands as existed 
        prior to entry and development of the lands.
            (6) Recovery system.--The term ``Recovery System'' means 
        the National Wildland Restoration and Recovery System 
        established in title V.

                TITLE I--DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS

SEC. 101. DESIGNATION OF CERTAIN NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LANDS AND OTHER 
              PUBLIC LANDS AS WILDERNESS.

    In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 
1131 et seq.), the National Forest System lands and other public lands 
described in this title in the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, 
Washington, and Wyoming are hereby designated as wilderness and, 
therefore, as components of the National Wilderness Preservation 
System.

SEC. 102. GREATER GLACIER/NORTHERN CONTINENTAL DIVIDE ECOSYSTEM.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The core of the Greater Glacier/Northern Continental 
        Divide ecosystem region is Glacier National Park and the Bob 
        Marshall Wilderness, which was the first wilderness area in the 
        United States.
            (2) This ecosystem includes unique lands, such as the Rocky 
        Mountain Front, where grizzlies still roam the prairies and 
        America's largest herd of bighorn sheep scales the craggy 
        peaks.
            (3) The Swan and Mission mountain ranges contain some of 
        Montana's largest old growth forests and pristine bull trout 
and westslope cutthroat trout spawning runs.
            (4) The Rocky Mountain Gray Wolf is making a comeback in 
        this ecosystem, and the ecosystem is home to the largest 
        grizzly population in the lower 48 States.
    (b) Designation.--In order to protect the unique Greater Glacier/
Northern Continental Divide ecosystem, the areas specified in the table 
in subsection (c), which together comprise approximately 1,102,535 
acres as generally depicted on the maps with titles corresponding to 
each area and dated January 2003, are hereby designated as wilderness. 
Each wilderness area shall either be incorporated into the wilderness 
area indicated or shall be known by the name given it in the table. 
Each map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the 
Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
    (c) Table of Areas.--The table referred to in subsection (b) is as 
follows:


          GREATER GLACIER/NORTHERN CONTINENTAL DIVIDE ECOSYSTEM
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                     Approximate
      Name of Wilderness Area          Acreage           Location
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Bob Marshall Wilderness
 Area:
 
Choteau Mountain/Teton High Peaks/       106,272  Lewis & Clark National
 Deep Creek........................                Forest/Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Renshaw............................       46,814  Lewis & Clark National
                                                   Forest/Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Swan Front.........................      169,430  Flathead Lolo National
                                                   Forest
Swan Crest.........................       89,351  Flathead National
                                                   Forest
Limestone Caves/Lost Jack..........       36,155  Flathead National
                                                   Forest
Monture Creek......................       98,859  Lolo National Forest
  Total............................      546,881
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Great Bear Wilderness
 Area:
 
Middle Fork........................       40,413  Flathead National
                                                   Forest
South Fork.........................       20,687  Flathead National
                                                   Forest
  Total............................       61,100
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Scapegoat Wilderness Area:
 
Stonewall Mountain.................       55,071  Helena National Forest
Silver King/Falls Creek............       42,280  Lewis & Clark/Helena
                                                   National Forest
Benchmark/Elk Creek................       27,828  Lewis & Clark National
                                                   Forest
  Total............................      125,179
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Mission Mountains
 Wilderness Area:
 
Mission additions..................        2,451  Flathead National
                                                   Forest
Marshall Peak......................        8,770  Lolo National Forest
  Total............................       11,221
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Rattlesnake Wilderness
 Area:
 
Rattlesnake additions..............        3,704  Lolo National Forest
                                    -------------
The following areas are components of the National Wilderness
 Preservation System and each area shall have the name given it in this
 table:
 
Badger-Two Medicine................      128,622  Lewis & Clark National
                                                   Forest
Sawtooth Ridge.....................       14,521  Lewis & Clark National
                                                   Forest
Mt Hefty/Tuchuck/Thompson-Seton....       38,421  Flathead/Kootenai
                                                   National Forests
Le Beau............................        6,472  Flathead/Kootenai
                                                   National Forests
Ten Lakes..........................       48,351  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Lincoln Gulch......................        9,060  Helena National Forest
Anaconda Hill......................       19,606  Helena National Forest
Specimen Creek.....................       13,494  Helena National Forest
Crater Mountain....................        9,612  Helena National Forest
Ogden Mountain.....................       12,199  Helena National Forest
Nevada Mountain....................       54,092  Helena National Forest
                                    -------------
  ECOSYSTEM TOTAL..................    1,102,535
------------------------------------------------------------------------

SEC. 103. GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The core of the greater Yellowstone region is 
        Yellowstone National Park, the Nation's first national park.
            (2) This world-famous region of geyser basins, towering 
        mountains, abundant wildlife, and vast forests contains the 
        headwaters for many of the Nation's most famous blue-ribbon 
        trout streams.
            (3) Small glaciers and permanent snowfields cloak the 
        rugged Teton and Beartooth mountains, which contain several 
        peaks greater than 12,000 feet.
            (4) Diverse habitat in the region ranges from cactus desert 
        lowlands to arctic tundra.
            (5) Wildlife in the region includes the threatened grizzly 
        bear, the Nation's last wild bison herd, trumpeter swans, and 
        nearly 35,000 elk.
    (b) Designation.--In order to protect the unique ecosystem of the 
greater Yellowstone region, the areas specified in the table in 
subsection (c), which comprise approximately 4,233,135 acres as 
generally depicted on the maps with titles corresponding to each area 
and dated January 2003, are hereby designated as wilderness. Each 
wilderness area shall either be incorporated into the wilderness area 
indicated or shall be known by the name given it in the table. Each map 
shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of 
the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
    (c) Table of Areas.--The table referred to in subsection (b) is as 
follows:


                      GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                     Approximate
      Name of Wilderness Area          Acreage           Location
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Absaroka-Beartooth
 Wilderness Area:
 
Absaroka-Beartooth additions.......      264,549  Gallatin/Custer/
                                                   Shoshone National
                                                   Forests
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the North Absaroka Wilderness
 Area:
 
North Absaroka additions...........      161,194  Shoshone National
                                                   Forest
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Washakie Wilderness Area:
 
Washakie additions.................      310,435  Shoshone National
                                                   Forest/Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Fitzpatrick Wilderness
 Area:
 
Fitzpatrick additions..............        3,994  Shoshone National
                                                   Forest
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Teton Wilderness Area:
 
Teton Corridor Trailheads/Togwotee        31,869  Bridger-Teton
 Pass.
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Gros Ventre Wilderness
 Area:
 
Shoal Creek addition...............       24,418  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest
Gros Ventre additions..............       82,492  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest
  Total............................      106,910
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Bridger Wilderness Area:
 
Bridger additions..................      157,332  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Popo Agie Wilderness Area:
 
Popo Agie additions................       47,754  Shoshone National
                                                   Forest
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Winegar Hole Wilderness
 Area:
 
Winegar Hole addition..............        4,851  Targhee National
                                                   Forest
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Jedadiah Smith Wilderness
 Area:
 
Philips Ridge......................       10,579   Bridger-Teton
                                                   National Forest
Jedadiah Smith additions...........        4,851   Bridger-Teton/Targhee
                                                   National Forests
  Total............................       15,430
                                    -------------
 
The following areas are incorporated into the Lee Metcalf Wilderness
 Area:
 
Cowboys Heaven.....................       39,402  Gallatin/Beaverhead
                                                   National Forests
Lee Metcalf additions..............      143,557  Gallatin/Beaverhead
                                                   National Forests
  Total............................      182,959
                                    -------------
 
Each of the following areas are a component of the National Wilderness
 Preservation System and shall have the name given it in this table:
 
Gallatin Range.....................      235,559  Gallatin National
                                                   Forest
Chico Peak.........................       12,336  Gallatin National
                                                   Forest
Madison............................       15,372  Gallatin National
                                                   Forest
Lionhead...........................       47,785  Gallatin/Targhee
                                                   National Forests
Line Creek Plateau/Deep Lake.......      130,561  Custer/Shoshone
                                                   National Forests
Monument Ridge.....................       17,720  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest
Munger Mountain....................       12,827  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest
Little Sheep Mountain..............       14,884  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest
Palisades..........................      223,578  Bridger-Teton/Targhee
                                                   National Forests
Mt. Leidy Highlands................      173,572  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest
Salt River Range...................      238,996  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest
Grayback Ridge.....................      282,976  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest
Commissary Ridge...................      177,691  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest
South Wyoming Range................       85,774  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest
Gannett Hills/Spring Creek.........      135,436  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest
Little Cottonwood..................        5,448  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest
North Mountain.....................        9,951  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest
Grayback Ridge East................       17,822  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest
Lake Mountain......................       16,750  Bridger-Teton National
                                                   Forest/Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Garns Mountain.....................      104,077  Targhee National
                                                   Forest
Snake River........................        9,645  Targhee National
                                                   Forest
Warm River South...................       15,839  Targhee National
                                                   Forest
Warm River North...................        9,740  Targhee National
                                                   Forest
Bald Mountain......................       16,393  Targhee National
                                                   Forest
Bear Creek.........................      117,272  Targhee/Caribou
                                                   National Forests
Stump Creek........................      100,390  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Caribou............................       83,540  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Poker Peak.........................       19,795  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Pole Creek.........................        8,384  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Schmid Peak........................       10,253  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Sage Creek.........................       17,455  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Red Mountain.......................       12,581  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Huckleberry Basin..................       27,129  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Meade Peak.........................       44,947  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Hell Hole..........................        5,132  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Gravelly Mountains.................      267,058  Beaverhead National
                                                   Forest
Snowcrest..........................       95,348  Beaverhead National
                                                   Forest
Tobacco Root Mountains.............      100,558  Beaverhead/Deerlodge
                                                   National Forests
  Total............................    2,945,858
                                    -------------
  ECOSYSTEM TOTAL..................    4,233,135
------------------------------------------------------------------------

SEC. 104. GREATER SALMON/SELWAY ECOSYSTEM.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The Greater Salmon/Selway region is one of the most 
        rugged and wild areas in America, and one of the largest intact 
        forest ecosystems in the temperate zones of the Earth.
            (2) The core of the region is comprised of the Frank 
        Church-River of No Return and Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness 
        areas.
            (3) Swimming the Salmon and Clearwater river systems, 
        several species of salmon and sea-going trout still make the 
        900 mile spawning journey from the Pacific Ocean to small 
        tributaries in the high mountain country.
            (4) Biological and landscape diversity in the region is 
        great, ranging from rocky, dry canyon country to wet forests of 
        ancient cedars many feet in diameter in the Mallard-Larkins and 
        other areas.
            (5) A wide array of forest dwelling species reside in the 
        region, and the gray wolf is making a comeback.
    (b) Designation.--In order to protect the unique ecosystem of the 
Greater Salmon/Selway region, the areas specified in the table in 
subsection (c), which comprise approximately 6,278,611 acres as 
generally depicted on the maps with titles corresponding to each area 
and dated January 2003, are hereby designated as wilderness. Each 
wilderness area shall either be incorporated into the wilderness area 
indicated or shall be known by the name given it in the table. Each map 
shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of 
the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
    (c) Table of Areas.--The table referred to in subsection (b) is as 
follows:


                     GREATER SALMON/SELWAY ECOSYSTEM
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                     Approximate
      Name of Wilderness Area          Acreage           Location
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Frank Church-River of No
 Return Wilderness Area:
 
Bluejoint..........................       62,149  Bitterroot/Salmon
                                                   National Forests
Camas Creek........................      100,843  Challis/Salmon
                                                   National Forests
Blue Bunch.........................       11,653  Challis/Boise National
                                                   Forests
Loon Creek.........................      103,898  Challis/Sawtooth
                                                   National Forests
Pinnacle Peak......................       10,574  Payette National
                                                   Forest
Meadow Creek.......................       46,897  Payette National
                                                   Forest/Boise National
                                                   Forest
Placer Creek.......................        7,801  Payette National
                                                   Forest
Smith Creek........................        2,261  Payette National
                                                   Forest
Cottontail Point-Pilot Peak........      105,988  Payette National
                                                   Forest
Bernard............................       20,039  Boise National Forest
Burnt Log..........................       21,370  Boise National Forest
Whiskey............................        5,227  Boise National Forest
Nameless Creek.....................        2,232  Boise National Forest
Tennessee..........................          616  Boise National Forest
Poker Meadows......................          969  Boise National Forest
Black Lake.........................        5,815  Boise National Forest
Panther Creek......................       29,729  Salmon National Forest
McEleny............................        3,041  Salmon National Forest
Little Horse.......................        6,425  Salmon National Forest
Oreana.............................        7,178  Salmon National Forest
Duck Peak..........................       45,001  Salmon National Forest
Long Tom...........................       18,885  Salmon National Forest
Challis Creek......................       41,726  Challis National
                                                   Forest
Seafoam............................       27,048  Challis National
                                                   Forest
Rackliff-Gedney....................       86,862  Clearwater/Nez Perce
                                                   National Forests
Jersey-Jack........................       64,261  Nez Perce National
                                                   Forest
Mallard............................       22,585  Nez Perce National
                                                   Forest
Marshall Mountain..................        4,068  Coeur d'Alene Dist.
                                                   Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
  Total............................      865,141
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Gospel Hump Wilderness
 Area:
 
Gospel Hump Additions..............       64,160  Nez Perce National
                                                   Forest
Carey Creek........................       10,019  Payette National
                                                   Forest/Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
  Total............................       74,179
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Selway-Bitterroot
 Wilderness Area:
 
Bitterroot additions...............      121,898  Bitterroot National
                                                   Forest
Lochsa Face........................       68,540  Clearwater National
                                                   Forest
Elk Summit/Sneakfoot/North Fork           54,607  Clearwater National
 Spruce............................                Forest
West Meadow Creek..................      109,323  Nez Perce National
                                                   Forest
East Meadow Creek..................       96,527  Nez Perce National
                                                   Forest
Lolo Creek.........................       19,950  Lolo/Clearwater/
                                                   Bitterroot National
                                                   Forests
  Total............................      470,845
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Sawtooth Wilderness Area:
 
Sawtooth completion (Hansen Lakes/       540,253  Boise/Sawtooth/Challis
 Huckleberry/Pettit/Smoky Mountains/               National Forests
 Ten Mile/Black Warrior/South Boise/
 Yuba).............................
                                    -------------
Each of the following areas are a component of the National Wilderness
 Preservation System and shall have the name given it in this table:
 
French Creek/Patrick Butte.........      177,863  Payette National
                                                   Forest
Crystal Mountain...................       13,053  Payette National
                                                   Forest
Secesh.............................      260,997  Payette National
                                                   Forest
Needles............................      172,350  Payette/Boise National
                                                   Forests
Caton Lake.........................       95,571  Payette/Boise National
                                                   Forests
Poison Creek.......................        5,232  Payette/Boise National
                                                   Forests
Mount Heinen.......................       16,594  Boise National Forest
Grape Mountain.....................       13,086  Boise National Forest
Peace Rock.........................      195,930  Boise National Forest
Deadwood...........................       55,967  Boise National Forest
Whitehawk Mountain.................        8,968  Boise National Forest
Stony Meadows......................       13,367  Boise National Forest
Bear Wallow........................        7,907  Boise National Forest
Grimes Pass........................       11,602  Boise National Forest
Bald Mountain......................        6,213  Boise National Forest
Hawley Mountain....................        9,637  Boise National Forest
Red Mountain.......................      111,329  Boise National Forest
Breadwinner........................       39,726  Boise National Forest
Elk Creek..........................       14,346  Boise National Forest
Steel Mountain.....................       23,542  Boise National Forest
Rainbow............................       31,476  Boise National Forest
Grand Mountain.....................       14,463  Boise National Forest
Sheep Creek........................       86,044  Boise National Forest
Snowbank...........................       38,079  Boise National Forest
House Mountain.....................       25,608  Boise National Forest
Danskin/South Fork Boise...........       27,818  Boise National Forest
Cow Creek..........................       14,917  Boise National Forest
Wilson Peak........................        7,955  Boise National Forest
Lost Man Creek.....................       12,684  Boise National Forest
Whiskey Jack.......................        6,566  Boise National Forest
Cathedral Rocks....................        8,203  Boise National Forest
Lime Creek.........................      114,180  Boise/Sawtooth
                                                   National Forests
O'Hara Falls Creek.................       24,442  Nez Perce National
                                                   Forest
Lick Point.........................        7,536  Nez Perce National
                                                   Forest
Goddard Creek......................       13,277  Nez Perce National
                                                   Forest
Middle Fork Face...................       11,159  Nez Perce National
                                                   Forest
Clear Creek........................       11,398  Nez Perce National
                                                   Forest
Silver Creek-Pilot Knob............       21,532  Nez Perce National
                                                   Forest
Dixie Summit-Nut Hill..............       11,491  Nez Perce National
                                                   Forest
North Fork Slate Creek.............       12,792  Nez Perce National
                                                   Forest
Little Slate Creek.................       20,561  Nez Perce National
                                                   Forest
John Day...........................       14,908  Nez Perce National
                                                   Forest
Perreau Creek......................        7,309  Salmon National Forest
Napias.............................        8,070  Salmon National Forest
Napolean Ridge.....................       51,953  Salmon National Forest
Jesse Creek........................       12,759  Salmon National Forest
Haystack Mountain..................       10,379  Salmon National Forest
Phelan.............................       11,600  Salmon National Forest
Sheepeater.........................       33,443  Salmon National Forest
South Fork Deep Creek..............       11,471  Salmon National Forest
Deep Creek.........................        6,087  Salmon National Forest
Jureano............................       25,316  Salmon National Forest
South Panther......................        5,344  Salmon National Forest
Musgrove...........................        7,541  Salmon National Forest
Taylor Mountain....................       60,305  Salmon/Challis
                                                   National Forests
Squaw Creek........................       96,088  Challis National
                                                   Forest
White Knob.........................       63,037  Challis National
                                                   Forest
Porphyry Peak......................       47,363  Challis National
                                                   Forest
Greylock...........................       10,907  Challis National
                                                   Forest
Copper Basin.......................       10,936  Challis National
                                                   Forest
Cold Springs.......................        8,802  Challis National
                                                   Forest
Pioneer Mountains..................      281,439  Sawtooth/Challis
                                                   National Forests
Railroad Ridge.....................       51,247  Sawtooth/Challis
                                                   National Forests
Boulder/White Clouds...............      457,371  Sawtooth/Challis
                                                   National Forests/
                                                   Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Buttercup Mountain.................       76,553  Sawtooth National
                                                   Forest
Elk Ridge..........................       10,566  Sawtooth National
                                                   Forest
Little Wood River..................        6,481  Shoshone Dist. Bureau
                                                   of Land Management
Friedman Creek.....................       10,969  Shoshone Dist. Bureau
                                                   of Land Management
  Total............................    3,173,505
                                    -------------
Great Burn Wildlands Complex:
Great Burn (Hoodoo)................      252,348  Clearwater/Lolo
                                                   National Forests
Meadow Creek/Upper North Fork/            57,789  Idaho Panhandle/Lolo/
 Rawhide...........................                Clearwater National
                                                   Forests
Sheep Mountain/State Line..........       68,011  Idaho Panhandle/Lolo
                                                   National Forests
Mallard-Larkins....................      275,365  Clearwater/Idaho
                                                   Panhandle National
                                                   Forests
Bighorn-Weitas.....................      243,560  Clearwater National
                                                   Forest
North Lochsa Slope.................      104,975  Clearwater National
                                                   Forest
Siwash.............................        8,653  Clearwater National
                                                   Forest
Pot Mountain.......................       48,583  Clearwater National
                                                   Forest
Moose Mountain.....................       20,441  Clearwater National
                                                   Forest
Eldorado Creek.....................        6,982  Clearwater National
                                                   Forest
Weir-Post Office...................       22,588  Clearwater National
                                                   Forest
Rawhide............................        5,424  Clearwater National
                                                   Forest
Mosquito Fly.......................       20,667  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Midget Peak........................        6,576  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Stark Mountain.....................       12,526  Lolo National Forest
  Total............................    1,154,488
                                    -------------
  ECOSYSTEM TOTAL..................    6,278,611
------------------------------------------------------------------------

SEC. 105. GREATER CABINET/YAAK/SELKIRK ECOSYSTEM.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The wettest part of the Northern Rockies, the Greater 
        Cabinet/Yaak/Selkirk ecosystem is a wild land region that 
        contains the last major stands of low elevation ancient forests 
        in the general region, including the Long Canyon area which 
        contains the oldest living cedars in the Nation.
            (2) The only caribou herd in the lower 48 States roams 
        these mountains, as do the grizzly and the gray wolf.
            (3) Towering mountains in the ecosystem include the 
        Cabinet, Selkirk, and Purcell ranges.
    (b) Designation.--In order to protect the unique, heavily 
fragmented, and endangered Greater Cabinet/Yaak/Selkirk ecosystem, the 
areas specified in the table in subsection (c), which comprise 
approximately 1,190,644 acres as generally depicted on the maps with 
titles corresponding to each area and dated January 2003, are hereby 
designated as wilderness. Each wilderness area shall either be 
incorporated into the wilderness area indicated or shall be known by 
the name given it in the table. Each map shall be on file and available 
for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture.
    (c) Table of Areas.--The table referred to in subsection (b) is as 
follows:


                 GREATER CABINET/YAAK/SELKIRK ECOSYSTEM
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                     Approximate
      Name of Wilderness Area          Acreage           Location
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Cabinet Mountains
 Wilderness Area:
 
Cabinet Additions..................      100,393  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
 
                                    -------------
The following areas are incorporated into the Salmo-Priest Wilderness
 Area:
 
Salmo-Priest Additions.............       56,841  Colville/Kaniksu
                                                   National Forests
 
                                    -------------
Each of the following areas are a component of the National Wilderness
 Preservation System and shall have the name given it in this table:
 
Saddle Mountain....................       33,488  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Galena Creek.......................       19,845  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Berray Mountain....................        8,177  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Lone Cliff-Smeads..................        8,731  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
McNeeley...........................        6,151  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Northwest Peaks....................       20,959  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Roderick...........................       31,133  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Grizzly Peak.......................        7,472  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
West Fork Yaak.....................       10,793  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Mt. Henry..........................       17,906  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Alexander Creek....................        8,477  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Robinson Mountain..................        6,729  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Devil's Gap........................        5,360  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Lone Cliff West....................        5,315  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Allen Peak.........................       29,598  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Huckleberry Mountain...............        8,965  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Cataract Peak......................       34,237  Kootenai/Lolo National
                                                   Forests
Cube Iron-Silcox...................       38,477  Kootenai/Lolo National
                                                   Forests
Sundance Ridge.....................        8,912  Lolo National Forest
Teepee-Spring Creek................       13,902  Lolo National Forest
Baldy Mountain.....................        6,482  Lolo National Forest
Scotchman's Peak...................       87,724  Kootenai/Idaho
                                                   Panhandle National
                                                   Forests
Buckhorn Ridge.....................       42,631  Kootenai/Idaho
                                                   Panhandle National
                                                   Forests
Little Grass Mountain/Grassy Top...       49,631  Colville/Idaho
                                                   Panhandle National
                                                   Forests
Abercrombie-Hooknose...............       40,485  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Exposure...........................        7,411  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Bunchgrass.........................       10,762  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Dry Canyon Breaks..................        6,815  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Granite Peak.......................       12,768  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Quartzite..........................        5,168  Colville National
                                                   Forest
South Fork Hungry Mountain.........       18,435  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Continental Mountain...............        7,874  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Skitwish Ridge.....................        6,860  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
White Mountain.....................       10,750  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Shafer Peak........................        6,295  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Upper Priest Lake..................       13,481  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Long Canyon/Selkirk Crest/Kootenai       109,548  Idaho Panhandle
 Peak..............................                National Forests/
                                                   Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Saddle Mountain....................        7,818  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Mt. Willard/Lake Estelle/Katka.....       90,510  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Trestle Peak.......................        7,637  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Beetop.............................       14,726  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Packsaddle.........................       21,477  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Blacktail Mountain.................        5,286  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Magee..............................       34,548  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Tepee Creek........................        5,316  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Trouble Creek......................        5,829  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Graham Coal........................       11,307  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Hellroaring........................       10,355  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Grandmother Mountain...............       38,993  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests
Pinchot Butte......................       11,861  Idaho Panhandle
                                                   National Forests/
                                                   Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
                                    -------------
  ECOSYSTEM TOTAL..................    1,190,644
------------------------------------------------------------------------

SEC. 106. ISLANDS IN THE SKY WILDERNESS.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
            (1) There are several island mountain ranges in the 
        Northern Rockies Bioregion, separated from other mountains by 
        the intervening prairies.
            (2) These wild and beautiful mountains are home to an 
        abundant array of native wildlife and birds and are 
representative of a unique ecological complex.
            (3) These lands include the Bighorn, Big Snowy, Pryor, 
        Elkhorn, and Caribou Mountain Ranges.
    (b) Designation.--In order to protect the unique and increasingly 
isolated ecological treasure of island mountain ranges in the Northern 
Rockies Bioregion, the areas specified in the table in subsection (c), 
which comprise approximately 2,665,315 acres as generally depicted on 
the maps with titles corresponding to each area and dated January 2003, 
are hereby designated as wilderness.
    (c) Treatment.--Each wilderness area shall either be incorporated 
into the wilderness area indicated or shall be known by the name given 
it in the table. Each map shall be on file and available for public 
inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department 
of Agriculture.
    (d) Table of Areas.--The table referred to in subsection (b) is as 
follows:


                   ISLANDS IN THE SKY WILDERNESS AREAS
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                     Approximate
      Name of Wilderness Area          Acreage           Location
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Each of the following areas are a component of the National Wilderness
 Preservation System or an addition to an existing wilderness area and
 shall have the name given it in this table:
 
Kettle Mountains:
Thirteen Mile......................       14,083  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Bald Snow..........................       24,776  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Profanity..........................       34,226  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Profanity East.....................        7,782  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Huckleberry South..................        7,835  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Huckleberry North..................        8,128  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Cougar Mountain....................        7,629  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Owl Mountain.......................       14,686  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Deer Creek.........................        9,317  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Jacknife Mountain..................        9,564  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Paradise...........................        6,131  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Bulldog Mountain...................        7,072  Colville National
                                                   Forest
Hoodoo/Twin Sisters................       39,030  Colville National
                                                   Forest
  Total............................      190,259
                                    -------------
Bighorn Mountains:
Cloud Peak Additions...............      187,562  Bighorn National
                                                   Forest
Little Bighorn.....................      126,929  Bighorn National
                                                   Forest
Walter Parie.......................       55,887  Bighorn National
                                                   Forest
Devil's Canyon.....................       37,720  Bighorn National
                                                   Forest
Sibley Lake........................        6,917  Bighorn National
                                                   Forest
Hideout Creek......................        9,594  Bighorn National
                                                   Forest
Bear Rocks.........................       24,520  Bighorn National
                                                   Forest
Horse Creek Mesa...................       77,805  Bighorn National
                                                   Forest
Bruce Mountain.....................        5,417  Bighorn National
                                                   Forest
Grommund Creek.....................       12,089  Bighorn National
                                                   Forest
Hazelton Peaks.....................       10,028  Bighorn National
                                                   Forest
Doyle Creek........................        6,542  Bighorn National
                                                   Forest
Leigh Creek........................       14,230  Bighorn National
                                                   Forest
Medicine Lodge.....................       25,089  Bighorn National
                                                   Forest/Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Alkali Creek East..................        9,264  Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Alkali Creek West..................        6,477  Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
North Fork Powder River............       14,790  Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Garder Mountain....................       17,524  Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Honeycombs.........................       65,081  Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Buffalo Creek......................       26,853  Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Lysite Mountain....................        9,204  Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
  Total............................      749,522
                                    -------------
Pryor Mountains:
Lost Water Canyon..................       62,901  Custer National Forest/
                                                   Bighorn National
                                                   Recreation Area/
                                                   Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Big Pryor Mountain.................       39,002  Custer National Forest
  Total............................      101,903
                                    -------------
Blue Mountains:
Additions to Wenaha-Tucannon
 Wilderness:
Upper Tucannon.....................       12,772  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
W-T Three..........................        2,373  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
Meadow Creek.......................        4,871  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
  Total............................       20,016
                                    -------------
Additions to North Fork John Day
 Wilderness:
Greenhorn Mountain.................       35,076  Umatilla/Malheur/
                                                   Wallowa-Whitman
                                                   National Forests
Jumpoff Joe........................        9,493  Umatilla/Malheur
                                                   National Forests
Twin Mountain......................       59,066  Wallowa-Whitman
                                                   National Forest
  Total............................      103,635
                                    -------------
Willow Springs.....................       10,418  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
Asotin Creek.......................       18,355  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
Spangler...........................        5,966  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
Wenatchee Creek....................       15,197  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
Mill Creek.........................       24,553  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
Walla Walla........................       34,413  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
Jassaud............................        5,535  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
Grande Ronde.......................       21,418  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
Texas Butte........................        8,153  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
Skookum............................        7,590  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
Potamus............................        5,512  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
South Fork-Tower...................       17,153  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
Squaw..............................        7,451  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
Horseshoe Ridge....................        5,887  Umatilla National
                                                   Forest
Hellhole/Mount Emily...............       68,882  Umatilla/Wallowa-
                                                   Whitman National
                                                   Forests
North Mount Emily..................        5,562  Umatilla/Wallowa-
                                                   Whitman National
                                                   Forests
Beaver Creek.......................       12,972  Wallowa-Whitman
                                                   National Forest
Upper Grande Ronde.................       11,723  Wallowa-Whitman
                                                   National Forest
Marble Point.......................        6,874  Wallowa-Whitman
                                                   National Forest
Joeseph Canyon.....................       24,276  Wallowa-Whitman
                                                   National Forest
Tope Creek.........................        9,236  Wallowa-Whitman
                                                   National Forest
  Total Umatilla/Wallowa-Whitman...      327,126
                                    -------------
Baldy Mountain.....................        6,456  Malheur National
                                                   Forest
Dixie Butte........................       12,907  Malheur National
                                                   Forest
Murderers Creek....................       24,631  Malheur National
                                                   Forest
Flag Creek.........................        7,264  Malheur National
                                                   Forest
Fox Creek..........................        6,083  Malheur National
                                                   Forest
Glacier Mountain...................       24,637  Malheur National
                                                   Forest
Malheur River......................       12,936  Malheur National
                                                   Forest
McClellan Mountain.................       21,736  Malheur National
                                                   Forest
Myrtle-Silvies.....................       11,280  Malheur National
                                                   Forest
Nipple Butte.......................       11,501  Malheur National
                                                   Forest
North Fork Malheur River...........       25,403  Malheur National
                                                   Forest
Pine Creek.........................       13,580  Malheur National
                                                   Forest
Shaketable.........................        6,926  Malheur National
                                                   Forest
Utley Butte........................       11,070  Malheur National
                                                   Forest
Monument Rock......................        5,398  Malheur National
                                                   Forest
  Total Malheur National Forest....      201,808
                                    -------------
Flint Range........................       66,227  Deerlodge National
                                                   Forest
Fred Burr..........................        6,050  Deerlodge National
                                                   Forest
Elkhorn Mountains..................       88,083  Helena National Forest
Cache Peak.........................       27,021  Sawtooth National
                                                   Forest
Sublett............................        6,676  Sawtooth National
                                                   Forest
Burnt Basin........................       43,661  Sawtooth National
                                                   Forest
Mount Harrison.....................       28,801  Sawtooth National
                                                   Forest
Fifth Fork Rock Creek..............        5,145  Sawtooth National
                                                   Forest
Third Fork Rock Creek..............       14,177  Sawtooth National
                                                   Forest
Cottonwood.........................        8,996  Sawtooth National
                                                   Forest
Mohogany Butte.....................       18,266  Sawtooth National
                                                   Forest
Thorobred..........................        5,831  Sawtooth National
                                                   Forest
Mount Naomi/Worm Creek.............       27,850  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Worm Creek.........................       40,052  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Swan Creek Mountain................        8,215  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Gibson.............................        8,176  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Paris Peak.........................        8,609  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Station Creek......................        8,404  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Mink Creek.........................       16,942  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Liberty Creek......................       14,801  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Williams Creek.....................        9,251  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Stauffer Creek.....................        8,052  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Sherman Peak.......................        7,845  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Soda Point.........................       23,044  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Clarkston Mountain.................       15,348  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Deep Creek.........................        6,701  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Oxford Mountain....................       40,058  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Elkhorn Mountain...................       43,639  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Bonneville Peak....................       33,245  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
North Pebble.......................        6,274  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Toponce............................       18,572  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Scout Mountain.....................       32,118  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
West Mink..........................       21,597  Caribou National
                                                   Forest
Cuddy Mountain.....................       46,582  Payette National
                                                   Forest
Council Mountain...................       15,579  Payette National
                                                   Forest
McCullough Peaks...................       38,347  Wyoming Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Sheep Mountain.....................       30,115  Wyoming Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Red Butte..........................       28,841  Wyoming Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Bobcat Draw Badlands...............       35,787  Wyoming Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Cedar Mountian.....................       26,754  Wyoming Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Copper Mountain....................        7,685  Wyoming Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Fuller Peak........................        9,638  Wyoming Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
Lysite Badlands....................       13,991  Wyoming Bureau of Land
                                                   Management
  Total............................      971,046
                                    -------------
  Island Wilderness Total..........    2,665,315
------------------------------------------------------------------------

SEC. 107. ADMINISTRATION.

    (a) Administration.--Subject to valid existing rights, each 
wilderness area designated under this title shall be administered by 
the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the 
Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131-1136) that govern areas designated by 
that Act as wilderness, except that for purposes of this subsection any 
reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness 
Act or any similar reference shall be deemed to be a reference to the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Map and Description.--As soon as practicable after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall file a 
map and legal description of each wilderness area designated under this 
title with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 
and the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives. Each 
map and legal description shall have the same force and effect as if 
included in this Act, except that correction of clerical and 
typographical errors in the map and legal description may be made. Each 
map and legal description shall be on file and available for public 
inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department 
of Agriculture.

SEC. 108. BLACKFEET WILDERNESS.

    (a) Designation.--In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness 
Act, the preservation of Blackfeet religious lands, and Blackfeet 
treaty rights, certain lands within the Lewis and Clark National Forest 
comprising approximately 128,622 acres known as the Badger-Two Medicine 
Area, as depicted on the map dated January 2003, and entitled 
``Blackfeet Wilderness'', are hereby designated as the Blackfeet 
Wilderness Area.
    (b) Treaty Rights.--The Congress recognizes that the Blackfeet 
Nation retains treaty rights in the lands described in subsection (a), 
provided for in the 1896 treaty with the United States Government.
    (c) Review.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct a review of 
the wilderness area established under this section in accordance with 
the Wilderness Act. The Secretary shall report the results of the 
review to the Congress not later than 3 years after the date of 
enactment of this Act.
    (d) Review Committee.--
            (1) Appointment.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall 
        establish a committee composed of the following:
                    (A) Representatives of the Blackfeet Tribal 
                Business Council.
                    (B) Blackfeet Tribal Traditionalists selected in a 
                manner consistent with the historic Cultural Law of the 
                Tribe, independently of the Business Council. The 
                Secretary shall give careful consideration to the 
                Blackfeet Language community and its views.
                    (C) The National Park Service.
                    (D) The State of Montana.
                    (E) Representatives of the public who use the area 
                designated as wilderness by this section, including 
                environmental groups previously appropriately involved 
                in the area.
            (2) Advisory role.--The committee shall regularly advise 
        the Secretary of Agriculture during the preparation of the 
        review required by subsection (c) and shall submit its findings 
        to the Congress concurrently with the submission of the review 
        by the Secretary.
            (3) Management plan.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall 
        instruct the committee to develop a wilderness management plan 
        for the area which ensures that Blackfeet religious and treaty 
        rights to the area are recognized and honored.
    (e) Considerations.--In carrying out their duties under subsections 
(c) and (d), the Secretary of Agriculture and the committee shall give 
special consideration to the religious, wilderness, and wildlife uses 
of the area, taking into account any treaties the United States has 
entered into with the Blackfeet Nation.
    (f) Withdrawal.--The Blackfeet Wilderness Area is hereby withdrawn 
from all forms of entry, appropriation, the disposal under the mining 
laws, and from disposition under the geothermal and mineral leasing 
laws.

SEC. 109. WATER.

    (a) Reservation.--With respect to each wilderness area designated 
by this title, the Congress hereby reserves a quantity of water 
sufficient to fulfill the purposes for which such area is designated. 
The priority date of such reserved rights shall be the date of 
enactment of this Act.
    (b) Implementation.--The Secretary of Agriculture and all other 
officers of the United States shall take all steps necessary to protect 
the rights reserved by subsection (a), including the filing of claims 
for quantification of such rights in any present or future appropriate 
stream adjudication, in a court of the State of Idaho, Montana, 
Wyoming, Oregon, or Washington, in which the United States has been or 
is properly joined in accordance with section 208 of the Act of July 
10, 1952 (66 Stat. 560; 43 U.S.C. 666; commonly referred to as the 
``McCarran Amendment'').

               TITLE II--BIOLOGICAL CONNECTING CORRIDORS

SEC. 201. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The most recent scientific information on ecological 
        reserve design and function points out the critical need for 
        biological connecting corridors between the larger core 
        ecosystem areas.
            (2) While none of the remaining major wild land ecosystems 
        of the Northern Rockies Bioregion appears to be of sufficient 
        size to perpetuate the full complement of self-sustaining 
        viable populations of native wildlife, biological diversity, 
        and full range of ecological processes on its own, it appears 
        that an effective reserve system can be achieved if biological 
        connecting corridors between the ecosystems are identified and 
        protected.
            (3) The wild land areas described in this section are 
        located between the major core ecosystems of the region and are 
        essential for wildlife and plant migration and genetic 
        interchange.
            (4) These areas are some of the most beautiful and wild 
        mountain ranges in the Nation, including the Bitterroot, 
        Sapphire, Lost River, Lemhi, and Bridger mountain ranges.

SEC. 202. DESIGNATION OF BIOLOGICAL CONNECTING CORRIDORS.

    (a) Designation.--To protect the life flow of the Northern Rockies 
Bioregion, the areas specified in the table in subsection (b) as 
biological connecting corridors, which comprise approximately 8,449,403 
acres as generally depicted on the maps with titles corresponding to 
each area and dated January 2003, are hereby designated as biological 
connecting corridors. The biological connecting corridors shall be of 
two types, areas to be designated as components of the National 
Wilderness Preservation System and areas to be subject to special 
corridor management requirements under section 203. Each biological 
connecting corridor shall be known by the name given it in the table. 
Each map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the 
Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
    (b) Table of Areas.--The table referred to in subsection (a) is as 
follows:


                     BIOLOGICAL CONNECTING CORRIDORS
Two Part Designation......................  (a) Portion designated as
                                             components of the National
                                             Wilderness Preservation
                                             System
                                            (b) Portion designated as
                                             special corridor management
                                             area
 



                     BIOLOGICAL CONNECTING CORRIDORS
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                      Approximate
           Name of Area                 Acreage           Location
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sapphire Mountains/Continental Divide Corridor-Lolo-Bitterroot-Deerlodge-
 Beaverhead National Forests:
 
Welcome Creek Addition............           1,091  Lolo National Forest
Anaconda Pintlar Additions........          80,031  Bitterroot/Deerlodge/
                                                     Beaverhead National
                                                     Forests
Sapphire..........................         117,345  Bitterroot/Deerlodge
                                                     National Forests
Stony Mountain....................         107,446  Lolo/Deerlodge/
                                                     Beaverhead National
                                                     Forests
Quigg Peak........................          84,231  Lolo/Deerlodge
                                                     National Forests
Silver King.......................          49,646  Lolo/Deerlodge
                                                     National Forests
Emerine...........................          15,947  Deerlodge National
                                                     Forest
Sleeping Child....................          21,404  Bitterroot National
                                                     Forest
  Totals..........................     (a) 477,141
                                       (b) 119,914
                                   ----------------
Jocko Mountains/Cabinet Mountains Corridor-Lolo National Forest
 
Mount Bushnell....................          41,585  Lolo National Forest
Cherry Peak.......................          34,964  Lolo National Forest
Patrick's Knob/North Cutoff.......          17,400  Lolo National Forest
South Siegel/South Cutoff.........          13,872  Lolo National Forest
North Siegel......................           8,670  Lolo National Forest
Reservation Divide................          24,540  Lolo National Forest
  Totals..........................     (a) 141,031
                                       (b) 128,679
                                   ----------------
Nine Mile/Great Burn Corridor-Lolo National Forest:
 
Burdette..........................          16,134  Lolo National Forest
Petty Mountain/Deep Creek.........          16,581  Lolo National Forest
Garden Point......................           6,717  Lolo National Forest
Deep Creek........................           7,087  Lolo National Forest
  Totals..........................      (a) 46,519
                                        (b) 73,113
                                   ----------------
Anaconda-Pintlar-Divide Corridor-Deerlodge/Beaverhead National Forest:
 
Fleecer...........................          35,231  Deerlodge/Beaverhead
                                                     National Forests
Highlands.........................          19,966  Deerlodge National
                                                     Forest
Basin Creek.......................           9,224  Deerlodge National
                                                     Forest
Granulated Mountain...............          14,115  Beaverhead National
                                                     Forest
  Totals..........................      (a) 78,536
                                       (b) 259,146
                                   ----------------
Ten Lakes/Cabinet/Yaak Corridor-Kootenai National Forest:
 
Gold Hill.........................          15,561  Kootenai National
                                                     Forest
Gold Hill West....................          15,679  Kootenai National
                                                     Forest
Zula Creek........................          38,266  Kootenai National
                                                     Forest
  Totals..........................      (a) 69,506
                                       (b) 296,505
                                   ----------------
Cabinet/Yaak/Great Burn Complex Corridor-Panhandle/Lolo/Clearwater
 National Forests:
 
Maple Peak........................          18,855  Lolo/Idaho Panhandle/
                                                     Kootenai National
                                                     Forests
Storm Creek.......................           8,728  Idaho Panhandle
                                                     National Forests
Hammond Creek.....................          19,133  Idaho Panhandle
                                                     National Forests
North Fork........................          30,465  Idaho Panhandle
                                                     National Forests
Big Creek.........................          79,719  Idaho Panhandle
                                                     National Forests
Lost Creek........................          11,537  Idaho Panhandle
                                                     National Forests
East Cathedral Peak/Elk Creek.....          34,207  Idaho Panhandle
                                                     National Forests
Spion Kop.........................          21,702  Idaho Panhandle
                                                     National Forests
Roland Point......................           6,003  Idaho Panhandle
                                                     National Forests
Trout Creek.......................          41,366  Idaho Panhandle/
                                                     Kootenai National
                                                     Forests
Wonderful Peak....................           6,675  Idaho Panhandle/Lolo
                                                     National Forests
Stevens Peak......................           5,660  Idaho Panhandle/Lolo
                                                     National Forests
Evans Gulch.......................           8,054  Lolo National Forest
Gilt Edge-Silver Creek............           8,567  Lolo National Forest
Ward Eagle........................           8,842  Lolo National Forest
Marble Point......................          12,580  Lolo National Forest
Clear Creek.......................           5,645  Lolo National Forest
  Totals..........................     (a) 327,738
                                       (b) 204,918
                                   ----------------
Cabinet/Yaak/Selkirk Corridor:
 
  Totals..........................   (a) See Total
                                     Cabinet/Yaak/
                                           Selkirk
                                        (b) 96,266
                                   ----------------
Cabinet/Yaak/Canada Corridor:
 
  Totals..........................           (a) 0
                                        (b) 41,044
                                   ----------------
Anaconda-Pintlar/Bitterroot Mountains Corridor-Beaverhead National
 Forest:
 
West Pioneers.....................         246,041  Beaverhead National
                                                     Forest
Call Mountain.....................           8,750  Beaverhead National
                                                     Forest
Cattle Gulch Ridge................          19,035  Beaverhead National
                                                     Forest
East Pioneers.....................         143,445  Beaverhead National
                                                     Forest
  Totals..........................     (a) 417,271
                                       (b) 136,564
                                   ----------------
Frank Church/Greater Yellowstone Corridor-Bitterroot-Salmon-Beaverhead-
 Targhee National Forests:
 
Tolan Creek.......................          14,169  Bitterroot National
                                                     Forest
Allan Mountain....................         157,395  Bitterroot/Salmon
                                                     National Forests
Anderson Mountain.................          48,947  Beaverhead/Salmon
                                                     National Forests
West Big Hole.....................         217,626  Beaverhead/Salmon
                                                     National Forests
Goat Mountain.....................          44,473  Beaverhead/Salmon
                                                     National Forests
Italian Peaks/Eighteen Mile/Maiden         304,787  Beaverhead/Salmon/
                                                     Targhee National
                                                     Forests
Garfield Mountain.................          87,867  Beaverhead/Targhee
                                                     National Forests
Four Eyes Canyon..................           7,141  Beaverhead National
                                                     Forest
Tendoy Mountains..................          58,614  Beaverhead National
                                                     Forest
Saginaw Creek.....................           7,519  Beaverhead National
                                                     Forest
Tash Peak.........................          60,574  Beaverhead National
                                                     Forest
Beaver Lakes......................          16,088  Beaverhead National
                                                     Forest
Agency Creek......................           6,382  Salmon National
                                                     Forest
Raynolds Pass.....................           7,153  Targhee National
                                                     Forest
Two Top...........................           6,775  Targhee National
                                                     Forest
Signal Peak.......................           8,165  Targhee National
                                                     Forest
Mount Jefferson/Centennials.......          87,726  Targhee/Beaverhead
                                                     National Forest/
                                                     Bureau of Land
                                                     Management
Dry Canyon........................           3,230  Gallatin National
                                                     Forest
  Totals..........................   (a) 1,144,631
                                       (b) 642,106
                                   ----------------
French Creek/Hells Canyon Study Area Corridor:
 
Totals............................           (a) 0
                                         (b) 3,233
                                   ----------------
Lemhi Mountains Corridor-Salmon-Challis-Targhee National Forest:
 
North Lemhi Mountains.............         306,629  Salmon/Challis
                                                     National Forests
Diamond Peak......................         167,321  Salmon/Challis/
                                                     Targhee National
                                                     Forests
Black Canyon......................           5,503  Idaho Falls Dist.
                                                     Bureau of Land
                                                     Management
Warm Creek........................           6,404  Salmon National
                                                     Forest
Goldbug Ridge.....................          12,092  Salmon National
                                                     Forest
Sal Mountain......................          13,514  Salmon National
                                                     Forest
  Totals..........................     (a) 511,463
                                        (b) 87,614
                                   ----------------
Lost River Range Corridor-Challis National Forest:
 
Borah Peak........................         135,077  Challis National
                                                     Forest/Salmon Dist.
                                                     Bureau of Land
                                                     Management
King Mountain.....................          83,463  Challis National
                                                     Forest
Grouse Peak.......................           8,156  Challis National
                                                     Forest
Red Hill..........................          14,402  Challis National
                                                     Forest
Jumpoff Mountain..................          13,556  Challis National
                                                     Forest
Wood Canyon.......................           7,505  Challis National
                                                     Forest
Pahsimeroi........................          75,921  Challis National
                                                     Forest
Burnt Creek.......................          21,680  Salmon/Idaho Falls
                                                     Dist. Bureau of
                                                     Land Management
Hawley Mountain...................          17,422  Idaho Falls Dist.
                                                     Bureau of Land
                                                     Management
  Totals..........................     (a) 377,182
                                        (b) 63,570
                                   ----------------
Frank Church Complex/Lemhi Range Corridor:
 
Totals............................           (a) 0
                                         (b) 3,058
                                   ----------------
Boulder/White Clouds/Lost River Range Corridor:
 
Jerry Peak........................          27,912  Salmon Dist. Bureau
                                                     of Land Management
Jerry Peak West...................          12,452  Salmon Dist. Bureau
                                                     of Land Management
Corral-Horse Basin................          69,170  Salmon Dist. Bureau
                                                     of Land Management
Appendicitis Hill.................          25,842  Idaho Falls Dist.
                                                     Bureau of Land
                                                     Management
White-Knob Mountains..............          10,149  Idaho Falls Dist.
                                                     Bureau of Land
                                                     Management
  Totals..........................     (a) 145,525
                                        (b) 87,590
                                   ----------------
Bitterroot/Lemhi Corridor:
 
Totals............................           (a) 0
                                           (b) 103
                                   ----------------
Greater Glacier/Greater Yellowstone Corridors:
 
Tenderfoot/Deep Creek.............         105,461  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Middle Fork Judith................          84,406  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Pilgrim Creek.....................          46,652  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Paine Gulch.......................           7,868  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Sawmill Gulch.....................          11,671  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Spring Creek......................          17,561  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
TW Mountain.......................           8,221  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Big Baldy.........................          42,703  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Granite Mountain..................          10,127  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Tollgate-Sheep....................          24,866  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Mount High........................          32,731  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Bluff Mountain....................          36,872  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
North Fork Smith..................           8,739  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Big Snowies.......................         104,917  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Highwoods.........................          24,674  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Highwood Baldy....................          15,684  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Calf Creek........................           9,912  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Eagle Park........................           5,740  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Castle Mountains..................          28,369  Lewis and Clark
                                                     National Forest
Box Canyon........................          15,114  Lewis and Clark/
                                                     Gallatin National
                                                     Forests
Crazy Mountains...................         159,049  Lewis and Clark/
                                                     Gallatin National
                                                     Forests
Gates of the Mountains Additions..          19,932  Helena National
                                                     Forest
Lazyman Gulch.....................          11,842  Helena National
                                                     Forest
Mt. Baldy.........................          18,508  Helena National
                                                     Forest
Camas Creek.......................          27,405  Helena National
                                                     Forest
Jericho Mountain..................          11,603  Helena National
                                                     Forest
Irish Gulch.......................           7,266  Helena National
                                                     Forest
Grassy Mountain...................           7,255  Helena National
                                                     Forest
Middleman/Hedges Mountain.........          33,586  Helena National
                                                     Forest
Hellgate Gulch....................          17,395  Helena National
                                                     Forest
Cayuse Mountain...................          22,144  Helena National
                                                     Forest
Electric Peak/Little Blackfoot              53,311  Helena/Deerlodge
 Meadows.                                            National Forests
Whitetail-Haystack................          76,132  Deerlodge National
                                                     Forest
O'Neil Creek......................           6,183  Deerlodge National
                                                     Forest
Bridger...........................          51,075  Gallatin National
                                                     Forest
  Totals..........................   (a) 1,164,974  ....................
                                       (b) 542,118
                                   ----------------
 
Mt. Leidy Highlands/Wind River Range Corridor:
 
Seven Lakes-Mosquito Lake.........          59,613  Bridger-Teton/
                                                     Shoshone National
                                                     Forests
Warm Springs Creek................           6,215  Shoshone National
                                                     Forests
Bench Mark........................           5,940  Shoshone National
                                                     Forests
  Totals..........................      (a) 71,768
                                        (b) 62,170
                                   ----------------
  Corridor Total..................   (a) 4,973,285
  Corridor Total..................   (b) 3,476,118
------------------------------------------------------------------------

SEC. 203. TREATMENT OF BIOLOGICAL CONNECTING CORRIDORS.

    (a) Roadless Lands Designated as Wilderness.--The roadless areas 
identified as part of the biological connecting corridors on the maps 
referred to in section 202 and the areas described on such maps as 
wilderness are hereby designated as wilderness and as components of the 
National Wilderness Preservation System.
    (b) Special Corridor Management Areas.--Those portions of the 
biological connecting corridors identified on the maps referred to in 
202 that are not covered by subsection (a) are hereby designated as 
special corridor management areas. The portions shall be managed in the 
following manner:
            (1) The practice of even-aged silvicultural management and 
        timber harvesting is hereby prohibited on the portions.
            (2) Mining, oil, and gas exploration and development and 
        new road construction or reconstruction is hereby prohibited 
        with regard to the portions.
            (3) The Federal land management agencies responsible for 
        the portions shall take immediate steps to ensure that road 
        densities within the biological connecting corridors approach, 
        as nearly as possible, zero miles of road per square mile of 
        land area. Such road density shall not exceed 0.25 miles per 
        square mile, using the method known as the ``moving window'' 
        method.

SEC. 204. APPLICABILITY OF TITLE.

    (a) Federal Land Management Agencies.--This title shall apply only 
to lands under the jurisdiction of the Forest Service, the Bureau of 
Land Management, and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
    (b) Private Landowners.--No private landowner whose lands are 
adjacent to the designated connecting corridors shall be compelled, 
under any circumstances, to comply with this title. However, private 
landowners may enter into cooperative agreements with the Federal 
Government on a willing participant or willing seller basis to include 
their land in a biological connecting corridor.

SEC. 205. COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS AND LAND TRADES AND ACQUISITIONS.

    (a) Cooperative Agreements.--The Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall seek to enter into cooperative 
agreements with private, State, and corporate landowners and sovereign 
Indian tribes whose lands are adjacent to the designated connecting 
corridors, when such agreements would benefit the ecological integrity 
and function of the designated corridor.
    (b) Land Trades and Acquisitions.--The Secretary of Agriculture and 
the Secretary of the Interior may undertake land trades or acquisitions 
in order to accomplish the purposes of this title when the Secretary 
concerned considers such action to be appropriate.
    (c) Report.--As part of the report required by section 601, the 
Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior shall 
describe the progress of cooperative agreements, acquisitions, and 
proposed land exchanges sought pursuant to this section.

SEC. 206. EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN ROADS AND HIGHWAYS.

    (a) Exemption.--The roads and highways referred to in subsection 
(b) are expressly exempted from the provisions of this title. In the 
event that any county, State, Federal, or private road has been 
mistakenly omitted from this list, it is deemed to be incorporated by 
reference.
    (b) Description.--The roads and highways referred to in subsection 
(a) are U.S. Highway 2; U.S. Highway 10; U.S. Highway 12; U.S. Highway 
20; U.S. Highway 89; U.S. Highway 91; U.S. Highway 93; U.S. Highway 95; 
U.S. Highway 287; Interstate Highway 15; Interstate Highway 90; Idaho 
State Highway 3; Idaho State Highway 28; Idaho State Highway 29; Idaho 
State Highway 87; Montana State Highway 2; Montana State Highway 37; 
Montana State Highway 38; Montana State Highway 41; Montana State 
Highway 43; Montana State Highway 56; Montana State Highway 58; Montana 
State Highway 83; Montana State Highway 87; Montana State Highway 135; 
Montana State Highway 200; Montana State Highway 278; Montana State 
Highway 287; Montana State Highway 298; Montana State Highway 324; 
Montana State Highway 293; Montana State Highway 294; Montana Secondary 
Road 92; Montana Secondary Road 278; Montana Secondary Road 279; 
Montana Secondary Road 294; Montana Secondary Road 298; Montana 
Secondary Road 324; Montana Secondary Road 411; Montana Secondary Road 
508; the Thompson Pass Road, Montana-Idaho; the Moyie Springs to East 
Port Road, Idaho; the Red Rock Pass Road, Montana; Boundary County, 
Idaho, Route 18; Boundary County, Idaho, Route 47; Boundary County, 
Idaho, Route 3; Boundary County, Idaho, Route 34; Lolo National Forest 
Route 102; Gallatin National Forest Route 259; Kelly Canyon Road, 
Gallatin National Forest; Middle Fork Canyon Road, Gallatin, National 
Forest; Lewis and Clark County Road 280, Montana; Lewis and Clark 
County Road 164, Montana; Lewis and Clark County Road 4, Montana; Lewis 
and Clark County Road 291, Montana; Lewis and Clark County Road 287, 
Montana; the Deerlodge to Basin Road, Montana; the Marysville to Avon 
Road, Montana; and the Pahsimeroi Road, Butte County, Idaho.

       TITLE III--NATIONAL PARKS, PRESERVES, AND RELATED STUDIES

SEC. 301. HELLS CANYON/CHIEF JOSEPH NATIONAL PRESERVE.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The ecological diversity of the Hells Canyon/Wallowa 
        Mountain Region is unique and its central proximity to other 
        ecologically intact or relatively intact areas makes it a 
        critical passageway for genetic interchange of native plants 
        and animals throughout the northwestern United States.
            (2) The deepest river-carved canyon in the world at over 
        8,000 feet deep, Hells Canyon of the Snake River forms the 
        centerpiece of the rugged Greater Hells Canyon/Wallowa Mountain 
        Region.
            (3) The ancestral home of the Nez Perce Indians and their 
        famous leaders, Old Chief Joseph, Young Chief Joseph, and 
        Ollokot, the region is historically significant and remains 
        spiritually and culturally important to existing tribes, whose 
        treaty rights guarantee their sovereignty and continued use of 
        the land.
            (4) The region abounds in cultural and archaeological 
        sites, the remnants of the Nez Perce Tribe and other aboriginal 
        cultures.
            (5) Breathtaking scenery in the region includes the 
        snowcapped peaks of the Wallowa and Seven Devils Mountains; 
        ancient boreal forests composed of many tree species; semi-arid 
        desert environments; rare, intact remnants of native Columbia 
        Basin grasslands; unique geology and numerous dramatic rimrock 
        canyons.
            (6) Endangered chinook salmon, rare and/or threatened 
        species such as goshawk, pine marten, bighorn sheep, the 
        largest free-roaming elk herd in the nation and a variety of 
other wildlife species still inhabit the region.
    (b) Hells Canyon/Chief Joseph National Preserve.--There is hereby 
established as a unit of the National Park System the Hells Canyon/
Chief Joseph National Preserve, which consists of approximately 
1,439,444 acres as delineated on the maps entitled Hells Canyon/Chief 
Joseph National Park and Preserve and dated January 2003.
    (c) Management and Administration.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of the Interior, acting 
        through the National Park Service, shall administer the Hells 
        Canyon/Chief Joseph National Preserve. In administering the 
        national preserve, the Secretary of the Interior shall give 
        primary consideration to protecting and restoring terrestrial, 
        atmospheric and aquatic ecosystems and habitats, natural 
        scenery, water quality and fisheries habitat, biological 
        diversity, wilderness values, and wildlife habitat.
            (2) Road closures; construction prohibition.--
                    (A) In general.--Within the national preserve, the 
                Secretary shall not authorize nor permit the 
                construction of any road on public land and shall 
                implement a program for road closures based on the 
                needs of wildlife, the review required by title VI, the 
                prevention of the spread of non-native vegetation and 
                the public need for back country areas.
                    (B) Reconstruction.--The reconstruction of certain 
                roads on public lands in the national preserve shall be 
                limited to the prevention of resource damage and shall 
                be subject to a definition of roads. Such definition 
                shall be carried out in the comprehensive management 
                planning process required by subsection (e) and shall 
                distinguish constructed roads from primitive roads. 
                Primitive roads shall not be reconstructed.
                    (C) Private roads.--Private road closures and 
                construction or reconstruction shall be subject to 
                subsection (e)(3).
            (3) Grazing.--Within the national preserve, the Secretary 
        shall close to commercial livestock grazing all livestock 
        allotments not under contract to private permittees as of the 
        date of the enactment of this Act. During the 5-year period 
        beginning on that date, the Secretary shall negotiate with 
        existing permittees to purchase active livestock allotments 
        within the national preserve. At the end of such period, the 
        Secretary shall cancel any remaining permits without 
        compensation and close the allotments. All purchased allotments 
        shall be closed to commercial livestock grazing.
            (4) Timber removal.--The removal of timber or other 
        vegetation on public lands within the national preserve shall 
        be limited to scientific and medicinal research, and permitted 
        subject to special rules. However, the Secretary shall allow 
        the noncommercial removal of wood, including firewood 
        gathering.
            (5) Motorized uses.--Within the national preserve, the 
        Secretary shall regulate all motorized uses to meet the 
        objectives stated in paragraph (1). Exclusion of terrestrial, 
        aerial, or aquatic motorized uses shall be implemented for 
        specific places, times, or both at the discretion of the 
        Secretary to protect the resource values referred to in 
        paragraph (1). The use of motorized watercraft is prohibited 
        within the national preserve, except on the scenic designated 
        portion of the Snake Wild and Scenic River, subject to 
        regulation that may require exclusion of such use in certain 
        places or during certain times.
    (d) Effect of Establishment.--
            (1) Wilderness areas and rivers.--Establishment of the 
        Hells Canyon/Chief Joseph National Preserve shall not change 
        the boundaries of, or legislative directives applicable to, 
        wilderness areas and wild and scenic rivers that exist within 
        the national preserve and are delineated on the maps referred 
        to in subsection (b).
            (2) Hells canyon national recreation area.--The Hells 
        Canyon/Chief Joseph National Preserve replaces the Hells Canyon 
        National Recreation Area, and Public Law 94-199 (16 U.S.C. 
        460gg et seq.) is repealed. Any reference to the Hells Canyon 
        National Recreation Area range in any law, regulation, map, 
        document, record, or other paper of the United States shall be 
        considered to be a reference to the Hells Canyon/Chief Joseph 
        National Preserve.
    (e) Comprehensive Management Plan.--
            (1) Plan required.--The Secretary of the Interior shall 
        develop, and revise and update as necessary and as required by 
        applicable statute or federal regulation, a comprehensive 
        management plan for the Hells Canyon/Chief Joseph National 
        Preserve consistent with the National Environmental Policy Act 
        of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). The plan shall promulgate 
        programs for management of recreation in a manner compatible 
        with the protection objectives specified in section 3(b) and 
        shall create a strategy for ecosystem protection and 
        restoration.
            (2) Monitoring plan.--As a part of the comprehensive 
        management plan, the Secretary shall develop a monitoring plan 
        for the national preserve. The monitoring plan shall stipulate 
        that the continuation of human uses is subject to monitoring on 
        a regular basis, with specific time frames to be developed in 
        the monitoring plan. Should monitoring indicate that 
        significant harm, as determined by the Secretary, is regularly 
        occurring to specific natural values of the national preserve 
        as a result of a human use of the national preserve, the 
        Secretary shall--
                    (A) suspend the human use in the national preserve 
                until it is adjusted to prevent significant harm; or
                    (B) terminate the human use in the national 
                preserve if the Secretary determines that the harm 
                cannot realistically be avoided.
            (3) Private lands.--As part of the comprehensive management 
        plan, the Secretary shall promulgate special regulations for 
        the management and protection of private lands located within 
the boundaries of the national preserve. The Secretary shall consult 
with State and local governments in the promulgation of such 
regulations.
            (4) Restoration.--The comprehensive management plan shall 
        set forth a distinctive program for the science-based 
        restoration of unique native ecological components, including 
        riparian area rehabilitation, the enhancement of depleted 
        native plant and animal species, elimination of non-native 
        species deemed to be a threat to biodiversity, and the 
reintroduction of select native species that have been extirpated.
    (f) Hunting and Fishing.--Within the Hells Canyon/Chief Joseph 
National Preserve, the Secretary of the Interior shall allow the 
continuation of hunting and fishing, as administered by the States of 
Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. The Secretary may preclude hunting in 
specific areas only to pursue the directives of subsection (c)(1) and 
only after collaboration with appropriate officials of these States.
    (g) Involvement in Snake River Dams Relicensing.--The Secretary of 
the Interior shall authorize the direct involvement of the Department 
of the Interior in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission process for 
the relicensing of the Hells Canyon Dams complex, including the 
Brownlee, Oxbow, and Hells Canyon Dams. Within this process, the 
representatives of the Secretary shall advocate for a determination of 
these dams that restores and protects the natural and ecosystem values 
of the Snake River below Oxbow Dam. The Secretary also shall pursue the 
relocation of those powerlines from Oxbow and Hells Canyon Dams located 
within the national preserve to locations outside of the preserve.
    (h) Involvement of Tribes.--The Secretary of the Interior shall 
ensure adherence to the treaty obligations of the United States with 
Native American tribes that maintain certain rights on ceded lands 
within the Hells Canyon/Chief Joseph National Preserve. The Secretary 
shall provide for consultation with Native American tribes that 
maintain certain rights on ceded lands. Involvement of the Tribes may 
include financial allocation to ensure their direct participation in 
land management activities and policy, upon their request.

SEC. 302. FLATHEAD NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE STUDY.

    (a) Study Requirement.--The Secretary of the Interior, acting 
through the Director of National Park Service, shall conduct a study of 
the feasibility of creating a Flathead National Park and Preserve. The 
Secretary shall study the feasibility of designating the study area 
described in subsection (b) as a unit of the National Park System, 
including the feasibility of applying to the study area national park 
and national preserve designations to be administered by the National 
Park Service. The study shall include specific recommendations as to 
which areas within the study area boundary should be classified as 
national park, and which should be classified as national preserve 
where hunting, fishing, and some motorized use shall be allowed.
    (b) Study Area.--The study area referred to in subsection (a) shall 
consist of the area generally known as the Glacier View Ranger District 
of the Flathead National Forest, excepting those lands south of the Big 
Mountain Road. The study area shall comprise approximately 285,078 
acres, as delineated on the map entitled ``Flathead National Park and 
Preserve Study'' and dated January 2003.
    (c) Time of Study.--The Secretary of the Interior shall complete 
the study required by this section not later than 3 years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
    (d) Management During Study.--Until the Congress enacts a law 
stating otherwise, the study area described in subsection (b) shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture so as to maintain its 
presently existing natural character and potential for inclusion in the 
National Park System. Until the Congress enacts a law stating 
otherwise, no new road construction or reconstruction, or timber 
harvest (except firewood gathering) shall be allowed within the study 
area. Additionally, no oil or gas leasing, mining, or other development 
which impairs the natural and roadless qualities of the study area 
shall be allowed within the study area. In administering the study 
area, the Secretary of Agriculture shall give special consideration to 
preserving scenery, water quality and fisheries habitat, biological 
diversity, and wildlife habitat for threatened and endangered species.

             TITLE IV--WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS DESIGNATIONS

SEC. 401. DESIGNATION OF WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS IN IDAHO, MONTANA, AND 
              WYOMING.

    Section 3(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1274(a)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
    ``(  ) South Fork Payette, Idaho.--The segment within the Boise and 
Sawtooth National Forests from the Sawtooth Wilderness Boundary 
downstream approximately 54 miles to confluence with the Middle Fork 
and then downstream on the main stem to the confluence with the North 
Fork, as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `South Fork 
Payette Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered 
by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Middle Fork Payette, Idaho.--The segment within the Boise 
National Forest from Railroad Pass downstream approximately 17.9 miles 
to Boiling Springs, as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled 
`Middle Fork Payette Wild and Recreational River' and dated January 
2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a 
wild river and the segment within the Boise National Forest from 
Boiling Springs downstream approximately 14.7 miles to the national 
forest boundary, as generally depicted on such map, which shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a recreational river.
    ``(  ) Deadwood, Idaho.--The segment within the Boise National 
Forest comprising approximately 21.3 miles as generally depicted on the 
boundary map entitled `Deadwood Wild and Scenic River' and dated 
January 2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, the 12.8 mile segment from Threemile Creek to Julie Creek, 
as a wild river, and the 8.9 mile segment from Julie Creek to the South 
Fork of the Payette, as a scenic river.
    ``(  ) Upper Priest, Idaho.--The segment within the Panhandle 
National Forest from the Canadian border downstream approximately 18.5 
miles to Upper Priest Lake, as generally depicted on the boundary map 
entitled `Upper Priest Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall 
be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.--The segment within the Panhandle 
National Forest from the headwaters downstream approximately 110.4 
miles as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `Coeur d'Alene 
Wild and Recreational River' and dated January 2003, which shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, the 8.5 miles from the 
headwaters downstream to Beaver Creek as a recreational river, the 15.2 
miles from Road No. 3099 to Teepee Creek as a wild river, the 52 miles 
from the South Fork to Teepee Creek as a recreational river, the 7.7 
miles from Mission Creek to the South Fork as a recreational river, and 
the 27 miles from Mission Creek to Lake Coeur d'Alene as a recreational 
river.
    ``(  ) Little North Fork Clearwater, Idaho.--The segment within the 
Panhandle National Forest from Adair Creek downstream approximately 
23.5 miles to Cedar Creek, as generally depicted on the boundary map 
entitled `Little North Fork Clearwater Wild River' and dated January 
2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a 
wild river.
    ``(  ) Kelly Creek, Idaho.--The segment, including all tributaries, 
within the Clearwater National Forest from its headwaters downstream 
approximately 19 miles to the forest service work station, as generally 
depicted on the boundary map entitled `Kelly Creek Wild and 
Recreational River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered 
by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river and the 12-mile segment 
from USFS Road No. 581 to the North Fork of the Clearwater River to be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a recreational river.
    ``(  ) Cayuse Creek, Idaho.--The segment within the Clearwater 
National Forest from its headwaters downstream approximately 39 miles 
to its mouth, as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled 
`Cayuse Creek Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Bargamin Creek, Idaho.--The segment within the Nez Perce 
National Forest comprising approximately 21 miles, as generally 
depicted on the boundary map entitled `Bargamin Creek Wild and Scenic 
River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture, the 15-mile segment from the North Boundary 
of the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness to the Salmon River, 
as a wild river and the 6-mile segment from its headwaters to USFS Road 
No. 468, as a scenic river.
    ``(  ) Lake Creek, Idaho.--The segment within the Nez Perce 
National Forest from the wilderness boundary downstream approximately 
10 miles to Crooked Creek, as generally depicted on the boundary map 
entitled `Lake Creek Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Meadow Creek, Idaho.--The segment within the Nez Perce 
National Forest from its headwaters downstream approximately 34 miles 
to Selway River, as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled 
`Meadow Creek Recreational River' and dated January 2003, which shall 
be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river, except 
for the 1-mile segment above the confluence with the Selway River which 
shall be administered as a recreational river.
    ``(  ) Running Creek, Idaho.--The segment within the Nez Perce 
National Forest comprising approximately 14 miles, as generally 
depicted on the boundary map entitled `Running Creek Scenic River' and 
dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, the 7-mile segment from the wilderness boundary to the 
Selway River, as a wild river and the 8-mile segment from its 
headwaters to the wilderness boundary, as a scenic river.
    ``(  ) South Fork Two Medicine River, Montana.--The segment within 
the Lewis and Clark National Forest from its headwaters downstream 
approximately 10 miles to the Sawmill Flat Trailhead, as generally 
depicted on the boundary map entitled `South Fork Two Medicine Wild 
River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture, as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Badger Creek, Including the South and North Forks, 
Montana.--The segment within the Lewis and Clark National Forest from 
its headwaters downstream to the national forest boundary, comprising 
approximately 23.8 miles, as generally depicted on the boundary map 
entitled `Badger Creek Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall 
be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Dearborn, Montana.--The segment within the Lewis and Clark 
National Forest downstream approximately 18.1 miles to the national 
forest boundary, as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled 
`Dearborn Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, as a wild river.
    ``(  ) North Fork Birch Creek, Montana.--The segment within the 
Lewis and Clark National Forest from its headwaters downstream 
approximately 6.6 miles to the national forest boundary, as generally 
depicted on the boundary map entitled `North Fork Birch Creek Wild 
River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture, as a wild river.
    ``(  ) South Fork Sun, Montana.--The segment within the Lewis and 
Clark National Forest from its headwaters at Sun Lake downstream 
approximately 25.5 miles to its confluence with the North Fork, as 
generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `South Fork Sun Wild 
River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture, as a wild river.
    ``(  ) North Fork Sun, Montana.--The segment comprising 
approximately 26.7 miles within the Lewis and Clark National Forest 
from the confluence of Open Creek and Fool Creek downstream 
approximately 25.4 miles to the Bob Marshall Wilderness boundary, as 
generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `North Fork Sun Wild 
and Recreational River' and dated January 2003, which shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, as a wild river and the 
segment from the Bob Marshall Wilderness boundary downstream 
approximately 1.3 miles to its confluence with the South Fork, 
which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, as a 
recreational river.
    ``(  ) Tenderfoot Creek, Montana.--The segment within the Lewis and 
Clark National Forest from The Falls downstream approximately 4.6 miles 
to the Smith River, as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled 
`Tenderfoot Creek Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Green Fork Straight Creek, Montana.--The segment within the 
Lewis and Clark National Forest from its headwaters downstream 
approximately 4.5 miles to Straight Creek, as generally depicted on the 
boundary map entitled `Green Fork Straight Creek Wild River' and dated 
January 2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Yaak River, Montana.--The segment within the Kootenai 
National Forest from the junction of the East and West Forks downstream 
38 miles to the Yaak Falls, as generally depicted on the boundary map 
entitled `Yaak River Wild and Recreational River' and dated January 
2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a 
recreational river and the segment from the Yaak Falls downstream 8 
miles to the mouth of the Yaak River at the junction of the Kootenai 
River, as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Kootenai River, Montana.--The segment within the Kootenai 
National Forest from the junction of the Fisher River (3 miles below 
Libby Dam) downstream for 46 miles to the State line, as generally 
depicted on the boundary map entitled `Kootenai River Recreational 
River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture as a recreational river.
    ``(  ) Bull River, Montana.--The segment within the Kootenai 
National Forest from the junction of the North and South Forks 
downstream 21 miles to the Cabinet Gorge Reservoir, as generally 
depicted on the boundary map entitled `Bull River Recreational River' 
and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of 
Agriculture as a recreational river.
    ``(  ) Vermillion River, Montana.--The segment within the Kootenai 
National Forest from the junction of Willow Creek, downstream 12 miles 
to the Noxon Reservoir, as generally depicted on the boundary map 
entitled `Vermillion Recreational River' and dated January 2003, which 
shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a recreational 
river.
    ``(  ) Salmon, Idaho.--The segment within the Salmon and Sawtooth 
National Forests from its source downstream approximately 177 miles to 
North Fork, Idaho, excluding that part in the town of Salmon, and the 
segment from Hammer Creek downstream approximately 45 miles to its 
mouth, as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `Salmon 
Recreational River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered 
by the Secretary of Agriculture, as a recreational river.
    ``(  ) East Fork Salmon, Idaho.--The segment within the Salmon and 
Sawtooth National Forests from the Sawtooth NRA boundary downstream 
approximately 20 miles to its confluence with the main stem, as 
generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `East Fork Salmon 
Recreational River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered 
by the Secretary of Agriculture, as a recreational river.
    ``(  ) North Fork Clearwater, Idaho.--The segment within the 
Clearwater National Forest from the Route No. 250 Bridge downstream 
approximately 60 miles to the slackwater in Dwarshak Reservoir, as 
generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `North Fork Clearwater 
Recreational River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered 
by the Secretary of Agriculture, as a recreational river.
    ``(  ) North Fork Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.--The segment within the 
Panhandle National Forest from its headwaters south of Honey Mountain 
downstream approximately 32.5 miles to its confluence with the Coeur 
d'Alene River, as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled 
`North Fork Coeur d'Alene Recreational River' and dated January 2003, 
which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a 
recreational river.
    ``(  ) Pack, Idaho.--The segment within the Panhandle National 
Forest from Harrison Lake downstream approximately 14 miles to the 
national forest boundary, as generally depicted on the boundary map 
entitled `Pack Recreational River' and dated January 2003, which shall 
be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a recreational 
river.
    ``(  ) Henry's Fork, Idaho.--The segment within the Targhee 
National Forest from Big Springs downstream approximately 28 miles to 
the Osborne Bridge, except for Island Park Reservoir, as generally 
depicted on the boundary map entitled `Henry's Fork Wild and Scenic 
River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture as a scenic river, and the segment from 
Osborne Bridge to the confluence of the Warm River, which shall be 
administered as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Falls River, Idaho.--The segment within the Targhee National 
Forest from Yellowstone National Park downstream approximately 13 miles 
to the National Forest Boundary, as generally depicted on the boundary 
map entitled `Falls Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(  ) West Fork Madison, Montana.--The segment within the 
Beaverhead National Forest from approximately the midpoint of Section 
28, R. 2 W., T. 12 S., downstream approximately 6 miles to Landon Camp, 
and from Section 32, R. 1 W., T. 12 S. downstream approximately 5.2 
miles to Shakelford Cow Camp, as generally depicted on the boundary map 
entitled `West Fork Madison Wild River' and dated January 2003, which 
shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, as a wild river 
and the segment from Miner Creek (Section 30, R. 2 W., T. 12 S.) 
downstream approximately 2.5 miles to the midpoint of Section 28, and 
the segment from Landon Camp downstream approximately 1.5 miles to the 
boundary of Sections 32 and 33, R. 1 W., T. 12 S. and from Shakelford 
Cow Camp downstream approximately 1.5 miles to Sloan Cow Camp, and from 
Sloan Cow Camp downstream approximately .75 miles to Partridge Cow 
Camp, and from Partridge Cow Camp downstream approximately 3.75 miles 
to the northeast corner of Section 4, R. 1 E., T. 12 S., as generally 
depicted on the boundary map entitled `West Fork Madison Scenic River' 
and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, as a scenic river and the segment from the northeast 
corner of Section 4, R. 1 E., T. 12 S. downstream approximately 6.5 
miles to the West Fork Rest Area, as generally depicted on the boundary 
map entitled `West Fork Madison Scenic River' and dated January 2003, 
which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a scenic 
river.
    ``(  ) Elk River, Montana.--The segment within the Beaverhead 
National Forest in the southeast corner of Section 16, R. 2 W., T. 11 
S., downstream approximately 12.2 miles to the southeast corner of 
Section 3, R. 1 W., T. 12 S. including the headwaters (Barnett Creek 
and all other tributaries), as generally depicted on the boundary map 
entitled `Elk Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, as a wild river; and the 
segment from the southeast corner of Section 3, R. 1 W., T. 12 S., 
downstream approximately 5.2 miles to the confluence with the West Fork 
of the Madison River, as generally depicted on the boundary map 
entitled `Elk Scenic River' and dated January 2003, which shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, as a scenic river.
    ``(  ) Browns Creek, Montana.--The segment within the Beaverhead 
National Forest from the west central part of Section 1, R. 14 W., T. 8 
S., downstream approximately 4.3 miles to the forest boundary, as 
generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `Browns Creek Wild 
River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Canyon Creek, Montana.--The segment within the Beaverhead 
National Forest from Canyon Lake downstream approximately 4 miles to 
the Canyon Creek Campground, and the Lion Creek tributary 
(approximately 2.5 miles), as generally depicted on the boundary map 
entitled `Canyon Creek Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall 
be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Deadman Creek, Montana.--The segment within the Beaverhead 
National Forest from its source downstream approximately 10.2 miles to 
the forest boundary, as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled 
`Deadman Creek Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Salt River, Wyoming.--The segment within the Bridger-Teton 
National Forest from the source downstream approximately 12 miles to 
forest road 10072, as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled 
`Salt Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered 
by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Swift Creek, Wyoming.--The segment within the Bridger-Teton 
National Forest from the source downstream approximately 8 miles to 
Periodic Spring, as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled 
`Swift Creek Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Hoback River, Wyoming.--The segment within the Bridger-Teton 
National Forest from the source downstream approximately 10 miles to 
the end of forest road 30710, as generally depicted on the boundary map 
entitled `Hoback Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Willow Creek, Wyoming.--The segment within the Bridger-Teton 
National Forest from the source downstream approximately 20 miles to 
the confluence with the Hoback River, as generally depicted on the 
boundary map entitled `Willow Creek Wild River' and dated January 2003, 
which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild 
river.
    ``(  ) Gros Ventre, Wyoming.--The segment within the Bridger-Teton 
National Forest from the source downstream approximately 12 miles to 
Horn Ranch, as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `Gros 
Ventre Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered 
by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river, and the segment from 
Horn Ranch downstream approximately 28 miles to the forest boundary, as 
generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `Gros Ventre Scenic 
River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture as a scenic river.
    ``(  ) Crystal Creek, Wyoming.--The segment within the Bridger-
Teton National Forest from the source downstream approximately 12 miles 
to the Gros Ventre Wilderness boundary, as generally depicted on the 
boundary map entitled `Crystal Creek Wild River' and dated January 
2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a 
wild river; and the segment from the end of the road downstream 
approximately 3 miles to the confluence with the Gros Ventre River, as 
generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `Crystal Creek Scenic 
River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture as a scenic river.
    ``(  ) Pacific Creek, Wyoming.--The segment within the Bridger-
Teton National Forest from the source downstream approximately 25 miles 
to the Teton Wilderness Boundary, as generally depicted on the boundary 
map entitled `Pacific Creek Wild River' and dated January 2003, which 
shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river; 
and the segment from the Wilderness boundary downstream approximately 8 
miles to the confluence with the Snake River, as generally depicted on 
the boundary map entitled `Pacific Creek Scenic River' and dated 
January 2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of 
Agriculture as a scenic river.
    ``(  ) Buffalo Fork, Wyoming.--The segment within the Bridger-Teton 
National Forest upstream from Turpin Meadows for approximately 68 
miles, as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `Buffalo Fork 
Wild River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river; and the segment from Turpin 
Meadows downstream approximately 16 miles to the boundary of Grand 
Teton National Park, as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled 
`Buffalo Fork Scenic River' and dated January 2003, which shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a scenic river.
    ``(  ) Snake, Wyoming.--The segment within the Bridger-Teton 
National Forest from the source downstream approximately 7 miles to the 
boundary of Yellowstone National Park, as generally depicted on the 
boundary map entitled `Snake Wild River' and dated January 2003, which 
shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Thorofare, Wyoming.--The segment of the main stem within the 
Bridger-Teton National Forest from the source downstream approximately 
25 miles to the confluence with the Yellowstone River, and the source 
of Open Creek downstream 10 miles to the confluence with the main stem, 
as generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `Thorofare Wild 
River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Atlantic Creek, Wyoming.--The segment within the Bridger-
Teton National Forest from the Parting of the Waters downstream 
approximately 10 miles to the confluence with the Yellowstone River, as 
generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `Atlantic Creek Wild 
River' and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(  ) Yellowstone, Wyoming.--The segment within the Bridger-Teton 
National Forest from the source downstream approximately 28 miles to 
the boundary of Yellowstone National Park, as generally depicted on the 
boundary map entitled `Yellowstone Wild River' and dated January 2003, 
which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild 
river.
    ``( ) Smith River, Montana.--The segment within the Lewis and Clark 
National Forest from Tenderfoot Creek downstream to Deep Creek, 
comprising approximately 11.8 miles, as generally depicted on the 
boundary map entitled `Smith Wild River' and dated January 2003, which 
shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``( ) Yellowstone River, Wyoming and Montana.--The segment within 
the Gallatin National Forest and Yellowstone National Park from the 
southern boundary of Yellowstone National Park to the confluence with 
Yellowstone Lake, and from the Fishing Bridge downstream to the mouth 
of Yankee Jim Canyon comprising approximately 102 miles, as generally 
depicted on the boundary map entitled `Yellowstone Wild and Scenic 
River, and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the 
Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture as a wild river with the 
exception of the segment from the north boundary of Yellowstone 
National Park to the mouth of Yankee Jim Canyon, which shall be 
administered as a scenic river.
    ``( ) Middle Fork Judith River, Montana.--The segment within the 
Lewis and Clark National Forest from Arch Coulee Junction downstream to 
the national forest boundary, comprising approximately 4.8 miles, as 
generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `Middle Fork Judith 
Wild River', and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``( ) Rock Creek Watershed, Montana.--(A) The segment of the main 
fork of Rock Creek within the Lolo and Deerlodge National Forests from 
the mouth of Juno Gulch downstream to the mouth of Rickard Gulch, 
comprising approximately 30 miles, as generally depicted on the 
boundary map entitled `Rock Creek Scenic River' and dated January 2003, 
which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a scenic 
river.
    ``(B) The segment of Ranch Creek, from its source to the boundary 
of the Lolo National Forest, within the Lolo National Forest, 
comprising approximately 5 miles, as generally depicted on the boundary 
map entitled `Ranch Creek Wild River' and dated January 2003, which 
shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(C) The entire segment of Welcome Creek, from its source to its 
confluence with the main fork of Rock Creek, within the Lolo National 
Forest, comprising approximately 7 miles, as generally depicted on the 
boundary map entitled `Welcome Creek Wild River' and dated January 
2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a 
wild river.
    ``(D) The entire segment of Alder Creek, from its source to its 
confluence with the main fork of Rock Creek, within the Lolo National 
Forest, comprising approximately 5 miles, as generally depicted on the 
boundary map entitled `Alder Creek Wild River' and dated January 2003, 
which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild 
river.
    ``(E) The entire segment of Hogback Creek, from its source to its 
confluence with the main fork of Rock Creek, within the Lolo National 
Forest, comprising approximately 6 miles, as generally depicted on the 
boundary map entitled `Hogback Wild River' and dated January 2003, 
which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild 
river.
    ``(F) The entire segment of Wyman Gulch, from its source to its 
confluence with the main fork of Rock Creek, within the Lolo National 
Forest, comprising approximately 5 miles, as generally depicted on the 
boundary map entitled `Wyman Gulch Wild River' and dated January 2003, 
which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild 
river.
    ``(G) The segment of Stony Creek from its source at Stony Lake to 
the mouth of Little Stony Creek, within the Deerlodge National Forest, 
comprising approximately 4 miles, as generally depicted on the boundary 
map entitled `Stony Creek Wild and Scenic River' and dated January 
2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a 
wild river; the segment of Stony Creek from the mouth of Little Stony 
Creek to its confluence with the main fork of Rock Creek, comprising 
approximately 6 miles, which shall be administered by the Secretary of 
Agriculture as a scenic river.
    ``(H) The segment of the West Fork of Rock Creek from its source to 
the Deerlodge National Forest boundary, within the Deerlodge National 
Forest, comprising approximately 15 miles, as generally depicted on the 
boundary map as `West Fork of Rock Creek Scenic River' and dated 
January 2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of 
Agriculture as a scenic river.
    ``(I) The segment of the Ross Fork of Rock Creek, from its source 
to the mouth of Elk Creek, within the Deerlodge National Forest, 
comprising approximately 10 miles, as generally depicted on the 
boundary map entitled `Ross Fork Wild River', which shall be 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild river.
    ``(J) The segment of Copper Creek, from its source to the boundary 
of the mouth of Lutz Creek, within the Deerlodge National Forest, 
comprising approximately 9 miles, as generally depicted on the boundary 
map entitled `Copper Creek Wild and Scenic River' and dated January 
2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a 
wild river; the segment of Copper Creek from the mouth of Lutz Creek to 
its confluence with the Middle Fork of Rock Creek, comprising 
approximately 5 miles, which shall be administered by the Secretary of 
Agriculture as a scenic river.
    ``(K) The segment of the Middle Fork of Rock Creek, from its source 
to the mouth of Senate Creek, within the Deerlodge National Forest, 
comprising approximately 5 miles, as generally depicted on the boundary 
map entitled `Middle Fork Wild and Scenic River' and dated January 
2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a 
wild river; the segment of the Middle Fork of Rock Creek, from the 
mouth of Senate Creek to the confluence with Copper Creek, comprising 
approximately 6 miles, which shall be administered by the Secretary of 
Agriculture as a scenic river.
    ``(L) The segment of Carpp Creek, from its source to its confluence 
with the Middle Fork of Rock Creek, within the Deerlodge National 
Forest, comprising approximately 6 miles, as generally depicted on the 
boundary map entitled `Carpp Creek Wild River' and dated January 2003, 
which shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a wild 
river.
    ``(M) The segment of the East Fork of Rock Creek, from its source 
to its confluence with the head of the East Fork Reservoir, within the 
Deerlodge National Forest, comprising approximately 10 miles, as 
generally depicted on the boundary map entitled `East Fork Wild River' 
and dated January 2003, which shall be administered by the Secretary of 
Agriculture as a wild river.''.

       TITLE V--NATIONAL WILDLAND RESTORATION AND RECOVERY SYSTEM

SEC. 501. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) Certain National Forest System lands and surrounding 
        areas have been damaged by unwise resource extraction and 
        development activities and practices, and the productive 
        potential of the lands and waters of these areas has been 
        reduced by development activities.
            (2) Recovery activities are required to reverse severe 
        damage to native fish and wildlife populations and water 
        quality in these areas.
            (3) Recovery work associated with these areas will create 
        new job opportunities for local communities, assist in the 
        economic transition ongoing in the region, and contribute to 
        the economic sustainability of these rural areas by restoring 
        the productive capability of the land.

SEC. 502. NATIONAL WILDLAND RESTORATION AND RECOVERY SYSTEM.

    (a) Establishment.--There is hereby established the National 
Wildland Restoration and Recovery System.
    (b) Components.--The following areas, as depicted on the maps dated 
January 2003, and entitled ``National Wildland Restoration and Recovery 
Area'', shall be components of the National Wildland Recovery and 
Restoration System and may be referred to as recovery areas:


------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Recovery areas               Acres         National Forest
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Skyland............................       10,126  Flathead National
                                                   Forest
Hungry Horse (except Hungry Horse        204,981  Flathead National
 Dam and Reservoir).                               Forest
Lolo Creek.........................       59,398  Lolo/Clearwater
                                                   National Forests
Yellowstone West...................      164,445  Targhee National
                                                   Forest
Mt. Leidy..........................       69,912  Bridger/Teton National
                                                   Forests
Cabinet/Yaak.......................       99,591  Kootenai National
                                                   Forest
Lightning Creek....................       30,722  Panhandle National
                                                   Forest
Coeur d'Alene River................      372,072  Panhandle National
                                                   Forest
Magruder Corridor..................       11,522  Nez Perce/Bitterroot
                                                   National Forests
                                    -------------
  Area Total.......................    1,022,769
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SEC. 503. MANAGEMENT OF RECOVERY SYSTEM.

    (a) Management During Recovery.--
            (1) Restoration.--All lands within the Recovery System 
        shall be managed so as to restore their native vegetative cover 
        and reduce or eliminate invasive non-native species and native 
        species diversity, stabilize slopes and soils to prevent or 
        reduce further erosion, recontour slopes to their original 
        contours, remove barriers to natural fish spawning runs, and 
        generally restore, as much as possible, such lands to their 
        natural condition as existed prior to their entry and 
        development.
            (2) Water quality restoration.--In the management of 
        Recovery System lands, special consideration shall be given to 
        restoration of water quality in the Recovery System.
            (3) Management methods.--Recovery System lands shall be 
        managed using methods such as road obliteration, planting of 
        trees and other vegetation native to the lands, and removal by 
        heavy equipment of sediment from streambeds. Existing methods 
        developed by the Forest Service, the National Park Service, and 
        other persons shall be considered and, when appropriate, 
        applied to the lands within the Recovery System. To the extent 
        practicable, the Secretary shall carry out this section using 
        existing, available equipment. When renting or leasing heavy 
        equipment necessary for recovery efforts pursuant to this 
        section, the Secretary shall use local contractors to the 
        extent practicable.
    (b) Post Recovery Management.--When recovery is achieved for a 
component of the Recovery System, the Forest Service shall evaluate the 
suitability of such component for inclusion in the National Wilderness 
Preservation System or for other uses consistent with the purposes of 
this Act. The Forest Service shall make a recommendation concerning the 
future management status of the component, and shall submit the 
recommendation and an evaluation to the Congress. The evaluation shall 
be conducted in the same manner as, and subject to the same 
requirements that apply to, the preparation of an environmental impact 
statement under section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)). The evaluation shall include 
documentation of the component's values as wilderness and as wildlife 
habitat, its role in maintaining water quality and native biodiversity, 
its role in the forest reserve system, a list of alternative 
designations for the component consistent with the purposes of this 
Act, and a roadless inventory for the component. No provision of this 
subsection shall be construed to diminish the responsibilities of the 
Secretary of Agriculture with respect to land and resource management 
plans under section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources 
Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604).

SEC. 504. NATIONAL WILDLAND RECOVERY CORPS.

    (a) Establishment.--There is hereby established a special unit of 
the Forest Service, to be known as the National Wildland Recovery 
Corps. The National Wildland Recovery Corps shall hire the necessary 
personnel and purchase the necessary equipment to carry out its land 
recovery responsibilities under this title.
    (b) Recovery Plans.--Not later than 3 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the National Wildland Recovery Corps shall 
develop a wildland recovery plan for each area of the Recovery System. 
Each recovery plan shall detail necessary work and funding requirements 
needed to implement the management direction established under section 
503. Each recovery plan shall take into account the specific conditions 
of an area in the Recovery System, including soil type, slope, native 
species composition, road densities, forest cover, the number of road 
crossings and culverts, and when possible, predevelopment conditions. 
Each recovery plan shall set forth definite timelines for expected 
recovery of the area to which the plan applies, including a list of 
management activities planned each year, with projected dates for 
recovery. Each recovery plan shall map out the portion, within the area 
of the Recovery System to which the plan applies, which will be 
recovered using active management efforts, as well as the portion of 
such area in which natural recovery will occur. Upon completion, a 
recovery plan shall become an amendment to the land and resource 
management plan for the unit of the National Forest System to which the 
plan applies.
    (c) Evaluation.--The National Wildland Recovery Corps shall use 
measurable criteria to judge the success of recovery efforts taken 
pursuant to this section. Such criteria shall include the results of 
sediment monitoring, reductions in open and total road densities, 
percent forest cover, increase in stream mileage available to native 
fish migrations, the results of hydrological measurements to determine 
water flow rates for key watersheds, and the abundance of management 
indicator species that are indicative of ecosystem health.
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.

                TITLE VI--IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING

SEC. 601. IMPLEMENTATION REPORT.

    (a) Report Required.--Within 3 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture 
shall jointly submit to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 
of the Senate and the Committee on Resources of the House of 
Representatives a report that details the implementation of this Act. 
The report shall also detail any additional work and funding 
requirements necessary to achieve the purposes of this Act.
    (b) Preparation.--The report shall be produced by a panel of 
independent scientists appointed by the National Academy of Sciences, 
in consultation with the Society for Conservation Biology.

SEC. 602. INTERAGENCY TEAM.

    (a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of 
the Interior shall jointly establish an interagency team, containing 
equal numbers of participants from the public and private sectors, to 
monitor, evaluate, and make recommendations to ensure long-term results 
required by this Act.
    (b) Geographic Information System.--
            (1) Development.--The interagency team shall develop a 
        geographic information system for monitoring the Northern 
        Rockies Bioregion. The geographic information system shall be 
        based on satellite-gathered data and shall include 
        comprehensive maps and databases to assist in the detection of 
        changes in the Northern Rockies Bioregion.
            (2) Types of information.--The maps and databases included 
        in the geographic information system shall be updated 
        periodically to record the following:
                    (A) Vegetation cover (with species occurrence and 
                densities).
                    (B) Human impacts.
                    (C) Water and air quality.
                    (D) Activities that bear on forest husbandry and 
                restoration.
            (3) Status reports.--The geographic information system 
        shall include status reports on the progress of ecosystem 
        protection, corridor consolidation, and forest recovery efforts 
        and reports on the status of threatened and endangered species 
        which are primary indicators of ecosystem health.
    (c) Wildlife Movements.--The interagency team shall assess the 
potential for facilitating wildlife movements across or under major 
highways and rail lines within the biological corridors established in 
title II. This assessment shall identify major crossing points and 
identify possible management actions to enhance the suitability of such 
crossing points as movement corridors, including underpasses, 
overpasses, and other methods for reducing the danger to native 
wildlife while facilitating movements within the Northern Rockies 
Bioregion.

SEC. 603. ROADLESS LANDS EVALUATION.

    (a) Evaluation Required.--Roadless lands greater than 1,000 acres 
in size, that are located within the National Forest System in the 
State of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, or Wyoming and that are 
not designated as components of the National Wilderness Preservation 
System (under this or any other Act) shall be identified and evaluated 
by the panel of independent scientists appointed under section 601. In 
identifying and evaluating these lands, the panel shall make use of 
existing satellite information and Geographic Information System data 
developed by the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, in addition to other 
information sources. The panel shall study the role of such lands in 
maintaining biological diversity in the Northern Rockies and as part of 
the overall forest reserve system. The panel shall make recommendations 
regarding the management of the lands, and shall include the 
recommendations in the report required by section 601.
    (b) Prohibition.--Until the Congress enacts a law stating 
otherwise, no new road construction or reconstruction, or timber 
harvest (except firewood gathering) shall be allowed in the lands 
described in subsection (a). Additionally, no oil or gas leasing, 
mining, or other development which impairs the natural and roadless 
qualities of these lands shall be allowed on the lands.

SEC. 604. NATIVE AMERICAN USES.

    (a) Definition.--For purposes of this section and section 605, the 
term ``protected areas'' means the Wilderness areas, National Park and 
Preserve Study areas, Wildland Recovery areas, Wild and Scenic Rivers, 
and biological corridors designated by this Act.
    (b) Nonexclusive Access.--In recognition of the past use of 
portions of the protected areas by Native Americans for traditional 
cultural and religious purposes, the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
Secretary of the Interior shall ensure nonexclusive access to these 
protected areas by native people for such traditional cultural and 
religious purposes. Such access shall be consistent with the purpose 
and intent of Public Law 95-341 (42 U.S.C. 1996; commonly known as the 
American Indian Religious Freedom Act). The Secretaries, in accordance 
with such Act, upon request of an Indian tribe, may from time-to-time 
temporarily close to the general public use of one or more specific 
portions of these protected areas in order to protect the privacy of 
religious activities and cultural uses in such portions by an Indian 
people. As part of the preparation of general management plans for the 
protected areas, the Secretaries shall request that the chief executive 
officers of appropriate Indian tribes make recommendations with respect 
to assuring access to important sites, enhancing the privacy of 
traditional cultural and religious activities, and protecting cultural 
and religious sites.
    (c) Cooperative Agreement.--The Forest Service and Bureau of Land 
Management shall enter into cooperative management agreements with the 
appropriate Indian tribes to assure protection of religious, burial, 
and gathering sites in the protected areas, and shall work 
cooperatively on the management of all uses in the protected areas that 
impact Indian lands and people.

SEC. 605. CULTURAL RESOURCES.

    In managing the protected areas described in section 604 in 
accordance with the provisions of this Act, the Secretary of 
Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior shall give particular 
emphasis to the preservation and protection of cultural resources 
located within these areas, in accordance with the Archaeological 
Resources Protection Act of 1979 (16 U.S.C. 470aa et seq.) and the 
National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). Cultural 
resources within the protected areas shall be managed in consultation 
with State Historic Preservation Officers, Indian tribes, and other 
appropriate parties in the States affected, with emphasis on the 
preservation of resources in the areas and the interpretive, 
educational, and long-term scientific uses of these resources.

                    TITLE VII--RULES OF CONSTRUCTION

SEC. 701. WATER RIGHTS.

    Nothing in this Act may be construed as a relinquishment or 
reduction of any water rights reserved, appropriated, or otherwise 
secured by the United States in the State of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, 
Oregon, or Washington on or before the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 702. FUTURE DESIGNATIONS.

    Nothing in this Act may be construed as establishing a precedent 
with regard to any future designations, including designations of 
wilderness, or as constituting an interpretation of any other Act or 
designations made pursuant thereto.

SEC. 703. INDIAN TRIBES.

    Nothing in this Act may be construed to affect or modify any treaty 
or other right of an Indian tribe.
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