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Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2021

Introduced: May 20, 2021 Introduced by: Barrasso, John Republican · Wyoming See on congress.gov
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Jun 7, 2022
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 117-301.
May 20, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
May 20, 2021
Introduced in Senate
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Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2021

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

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

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

The bill designates the following special management areas:

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

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

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

What's happening now June 7, 2022

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 117-301.

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Lummis, Cynthia M.
Wyoming · May 20, 2021
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1750: Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2021. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-1750/
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"S. 1750: Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2021." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-1750/.
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