S 1750 United States Senate · 117th Congress

Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2021

Summary
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.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2021
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President
Introduced May 20, 2021 Last action Jun 7, 2022
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Jun 7, 2022
Upper · Passed
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held.
upper
May 20, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
upper
May 20, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor

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