Current Status of Wilderness (and related) Bills
110th Congress (Go to 106th Congress, 107th Congress, 108th Congress, 109th Congress)
Updated 06/13/08 01:18 PM (Eastern Time)
Consensus position of wilderness groups:  Support, Oppose   vv = voice vote, uc = unanimous consent

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			Note: printed copies of some large omnibus bills are often late and in a few cases they were never printed

Bill	Sponsor	State	Description	Pos	Most Recent Action	Details
Wilderness Bills (making significant additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System)
Alaska Rainforest Conservation Act	DeLauro	AK			10/4/07 Introduced	HR 3757
Arctic Wilderness Act	Markey	AK	1,559,538 acres		1/4/07 Introduced	HR 39
	Lieberman				11/7/07 Introduced	S 2316
Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness Act of 2007	Grijalva	AZ	70,000 acre Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness, adds 13,300 acres to the Pajarita Wilderness		7/12/07 Introduced 3/13/08 Introduced	HR 3022 HR 5610
California Desert and Mountain Heritage Act	Bono	CA	10 units. Designates 84,605 acres (USFS, BLM, & NPS) wilderness, 41,100 acres potential NPS wilderness, 31.52 miles of wild and scenic rivers, expands boundary of Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument		9/27/07 Introduced 3/13/08 Introduced	HR 3682 HR 5610
	Boxer				9/27/07 Introduced	S 2109
California Wild Heritage Act of 2007	Boxer	CA	1.538million acres (52 areas) plus 220,000 acres as wilderness study areas and other protective designations (9 areas) and 440 miles of wild & scenic designations for 22 river segments.		2/6/07 Introduced	S 493
	Solis				2/6/07 Introduced	HR 860
Eastern Sierra and Northern San Gabriel Wild Heritage Act	McKeon	CA	adds 172,592 acres to four existing wilderness areas and designates 301,214 acres in four new wilderness areas.		5/22/08 Introduced	HR 6156
	Boxer				5/22/08 Introduced	S 3069
Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park Wilderness Act of 2007	Costa	CA	69,500 acres as the John Krebs Wilderness		7/12/07 Introduced	HR 3022
	Boxer				7/12/07 Introduced	S 1774
Colorado Wilderness Act of 2007	DeGette	CO	1,587,786 acres		10/4/07 Introduced	HR 3756
Browns Canyon Wilderness Act	Salazar	CO	20,025 acres		5/22/08 Introduced	S 3066
Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area and Dominguez Canyon Wilderness Area Act	Salazar	CO	Creates 210,677 acre Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area and designates 66,280 acre Dominguez Canyon Wilderness		5/22/08 Introduced	HR 6162
	Salazar	CO			5/22/08 Introduced	S 3065
Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness Act	Udall, Mark	CO	249,339 acres in Nat'l Park, adds 4,195 acres to Indian Peaks Wilderness (USFS)		5/15/07 Introduced	HR 2334
	Salazar				5/14/07 Introduced	S 1380
Boulder-White Cloud Mountains (Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act)	Simpson	ID	318,765 acres in three units on FS and BLM lands. Transfers some federal lands to local counties and cities. Creates Boulder White Clouds Management Area outside the wilderness.  (Note: this bill is opposed by some generally pro-wilderness groups)	see note ICL Simpson	1/4/07 Introduced	HR 222
Owyhee Initiative Implementation Act of 2007	Crapo	ID	517,196 acres of wilderness. 385.9 miles of wild & scenic rivers. Provisions regulating ORV use and grazing. (Note: this bill is opposed by some generally pro-wilderness groups)	see note owyhee initiave.org Crapo	3/7/07 Introduced 4/9/08 Introduced 4/22/08 Hearing held	S 802 S 2833
Chattahoochee National Forest Act of 2007	Deal	GA	7 additions to existing wilderness units totaling 8,448 acres. Creates 13,382 acre Mountaintown National Scenic Area		1/29/07 Introduced	HR 707
Sabinoso Wilderness Act of 2007	Udall, Tom	NM	19,880 acres		6/7/07 Introduced 3/13/08 Introduced	HR 2632 HR 5610
Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act	Maloney	ID, MT, OR, WA, WY	20.57 million acres wilderness, 6.22 million acres of other protective designations		4/20/07 Introduced	HR 1975
Beaver Basin Wilderness Act	Levin	MI	11,740 Beaver Basin Wilderness at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore		5/14/08 Introduced	S 3017
Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Voluntary and Equitable Grazing Conflict Resolution Act	Smith	OR	Provides for retiring grazing leases with compensation. Designates 23,000 acre Soda Mountain Wilderness (BLM)		11/16/07 Introduced	S 2379
Copper Salmon Wilderness Act	DeFazio	OR	adds 13,700 acres to the Grassy Knob Wilderness. The addition shall be known as the Copper Salmon Wilderness. Designates portions of the Elk River as wild and scenic		9//10/07 Introduced 3/13/08 Introduced	HR 3513 HR 5610
	Wyden				9//10/07 Introduced	S 2034
Lewis and Clark Mount Hood Wilderness Act of 2007	Wyden Bingaman	OR	77,500 acres, 23 miles of wild & scenic rivers.		2/15/07 Introduced 10/17/07 Introduced	S 647 S 2180
Oregon Badlands Wilderness Act of 2008	Wyden	OR	29,837 acres (BLM)		6/5/08 Introduced	S 3088
Spring Basin Wilderness Act of 2008'	Wyden	OR	8,661 acres (BLM)		6/5/08 Introduced	S 3089
America's Red Rock Wilderness Act	Hinchey	UT	9.314 million acres		4/18/07 Introduced	HR 1919
	Durbin				4/19/07 Introduced	S 1170
Washington County Growth and Conservation Act of 2006	Bennett	UT	219,725 acres. 123,743 acres in Zion NP, 2,642 acres Forest Service, and 93,340 acres BLM. 165.5 miles of wild & scenic rivers on Virgin River and tributaries. 61,473 acre Red Cliffs NCA,  Also includes 25,000 acres of public land disposal and other provisions		4/9/08 Introduced	S 2834
	Matheson
Virginia Ridge and Valley Act of 2005	Boucher	VA	42,943 acres of wilderness (4 new units, additions to 9 existing) , creates two National Scenic Areas (11,958 acres total)		2/13/07 Introduced	HR 1011
	Warner				2/13/07 Introduced	S 570
Wild Sky Wilderness Act of 2007	Murray Bingaman	WA	106,000 acres		2/7/07 Introduced 10/17/07 Introduced 12/13/07 Introduced 2/8/08 Introduced 3/10/08 Introduced 4/10/08 Passed Senate, RC# 101 4/29/08 Passed House RC# 226 5/1/08 Sent to Pres	S 520 S 2179 S 2483 S 2616 S 2739
	Larsen				2/7/07 Introduced	HR 886
Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions and Wild Pratt River Act of 2007	Reichert	WA	adds 22,100 acres to the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. Designates the entire Pratt River as a wild river.		1/29/08 Introduced	HR 4113
Wild Monongahela Act: A National Legacy for West Virginia's Special Places	Rahall	WV			11/8/07 Introduced 3/13/08 Introduced	HR 5151 HR 5610
	Byrd				1/30/08 Introduced 4/15/08 Hearing held	S 2581
Wilderness Bills Expected or Under Discussion (not yet introduced)
Eastern Sierra Rural Heritage and Economic Enhancement Act	McKeon	CA	39,680 acre addition to Hoover Wilderness, 640 acre addition to Emigrant Wilderness, 24 miles of  Amargosa River as wild & scenic river
	Boxer
Lyon, Mineral & Esmeralda Counties		NV	FS, BLM
Doña Ana County	Domenici	NM	BLM, includes NCA and land disposal
Soda Mountains Wilderness	Smith	OR	BLM, 23,000 acre wilderness is expected as part of a bill to retire grazing in Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
Bills with impacts on wilderness
various bills that would open Arctic Coastal Plain to oil development	Paul Thornberry	AK	Opens the Arctic Coastal Plain to oil and gas development		5/21/07 Introduced 7/18/07 Introduced	HR 2415 HR 3089
	Stevens				3/13/08 Introduced	S 2578
Izembek and Alaska Peninsula Refuge and Wilderness Enhancement Act of 2007	Murkowski	AK	Removes 206 acres of the Izembek N.W.R Wilderness to allow construction of the King Cove Rd through the wilderness. Adds 61,723 acres of non-federal land to the Refuge, of which 45,493 would be designated as wilderness.		6/21/07 Introduced 4/15/08 Hearing held	S 1680
	Young (AK)				6/21/07 Introduced	HR 2601
Idaho Wilderness Boundary Modification Act of 2007	Craig	ID	adjusts the boundaries of the Frank Church by adding and deleting 10.2 acres		7/17/07 Introduced	S 1802
Denali National Park and Alaska Railroad Land Exchange Act of 2007	Murkowski	AK	authorizes the exchange of 25 acres in Denali National Park to the Alaska Railroad. Any acquired lands adjacent to existing wilderness will become wilderness.		7/17/07 Introduced	S 1808
Pack animals in wilderness (Preserving our Equine Heritage on Public Land Act)	Crapo		Preserves the use and access of pack and saddle stock animals on public lands, including wilderness		11/1/07 Introduced	S 2283
Orchard Detention Basin Flood Control Act	Porter	NV	releases 65 acres of BLM land in the Sunrise Mountain Instant Study Area		3/5/08 Introduced	HR 816
National Landscape Conservation System Act	Bingaman		Establishes the National Landscape Conservation System		4/18/07 Introduced	S 1139
	Grijalva				4/24/07 Introduced	HR 2016
National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Act	Inslee		Legislates the 2001 Clinton roadless area rule		5/24/07 Introduced	HR 2516
Forest Roadless Area Conservation Act	Cantwell		protects FS roadless areas without reference to Clinton rule except for identifying the areas.		5/24/07 Introduced	S 1478
Saving American Lives and Investing in Protecting Land And Nature Act	Sali		categorical exclusion of certain projects on National Forests from EIS or EAs		11/15/07 Introduced	HR 4525
Other Bills of Interest