America's Red Rock Wilderness Act
Sponsored By: Representative Stansbury
Introduced
Summary
Protect Utah's red rock country by creating a large network of federally designated wilderness areas managed under the Wilderness Act. The bill would lock in new protections for dozens of units across Utah and limit surface‑disturbing uses and new mineral leasing in those places.
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New Utah wilderness areas and limits
This bill would name and map many new wilderness areas across Utah, managed by BLM under the Wilderness Act. Examples include Paria‑Hackberry (about 196,000 acres), Fiftymile Mountain (about 207,000 acres), Dirty Devil (about 245,000 acres), and a Desolation Canyon expansion (about 293,500 acres). The Secretary would file official maps and legal descriptions with Congress, and any new federal land inside those boundaries would join the wilderness. The lands would be withdrawn from new mining claims and from mineral or geothermal leasing, subject to valid existing rights on the enactment date.
Tribal rights and duties unchanged
The bill would not change any rights of federally recognized tribes or any U.S. obligations to them. It would preserve existing tribal legal rights tied to these lands.
Utah land swaps with mineral limits
If State-owned parcels fall inside a new wilderness, the Interior Secretary would have to offer a land swap of about equal value in Utah. The Secretary could not transfer federal mineral rights in the swap unless Utah gives the United States its mineral rights in the wilderness parcel. Exchanges would follow federal land laws.
Water rights reserved for wilderness
For each new wilderness, the bill would reserve enough water, with a priority date equal to the enactment date. The Secretary would protect these rights and could file claims in state water courts. Earlier U.S. water rights would remain. These reservations would apply only to these areas and would not set a precedent elsewhere.
Grazing, roads, and wildlife rules
If your grazing permit was valid on the enactment date, you could keep grazing in the new wilderness areas, under reasonable rules. Wilderness boundaries would be set back from roads: if on one side, 300 ft from paved highways, 100 ft from other paved or high-standard dirt/gravel roads, and 30 ft from other roads. If on both sides, the setbacks would be 200 ft, 40 ft, and 10 ft. The state would keep its authority over wildlife and fish on these lands. The Secretary could use cliffs or fences as boundaries when that helps management.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Stansbury
NM • D
Cosponsors
Tlaib
MI • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Neal
MA • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Connolly
VA • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Cohen
TN • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Brownley
CA • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Casten
IL • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Schakowsky
IL • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Pingree
ME • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
DeLauro
CT • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Craig
MN • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Cleaver
MO • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
DeGette
CO • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Hoyle (OR)
OR • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Hayes
CT • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Krishnamoorthi
IL • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Lieu
CA • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Chu
CA • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
DelBene
WA • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Lynch
MA • D
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Smith (WA)
WA • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Garcia (IL)
IL • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Mullin
CA • D
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Matsui
CA • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
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Moore (WI)
WI • D
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Pocan
WI • D
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Sanchez
CA • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Waters
CA • D
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Foster
IL • D
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Stevens
MI • D
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Omar
MN • D
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Neguse
CO • D
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Huffman
CA • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Tonko
NY • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Carbajal
CA • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Meng
NY • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Beyer
VA • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Menendez
NJ • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Meeks
NY • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Jayapal
WA • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Ramirez
IL • D
Sponsored 3/27/2025
Pappas
NH • D
Sponsored 5/7/2025
Courtney
CT • D
Sponsored 5/7/2025
Salinas
OR • D
Sponsored 5/7/2025
Bonamici
OR • D
Sponsored 5/7/2025
Jacobs
CA • D
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McCollum
MN • D
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Dexter
OR • D
Sponsored 5/15/2025
Schrier
WA • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Tokuda
HI • D
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Quigley
IL • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Thompson (CA)
CA • D
Sponsored 7/17/2025
Levin
CA • D
Sponsored 7/17/2025
Budzinski
IL • D
Sponsored 9/3/2025
Morrison
MN • D
Sponsored 9/3/2025
McGovern
MA • D
Sponsored 9/3/2025
Moulton
MA • D
Sponsored 9/11/2025
Sorensen
IL • D
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Panetta
CA • D
Sponsored 11/7/2025
Lofgren
CA • D
Sponsored 12/16/2025
Simon
CA • D
Sponsored 2/11/2026
Strickland
WA • D
Sponsored 2/23/2026
Lee (PA)
PA • D
Sponsored 2/23/2026
Norcross
NJ • D
Sponsored 3/5/2026
Espaillat
NY • D
Sponsored 3/5/2026
Vargas
CA • D
Sponsored 3/26/2026
Bynum
OR • D
Sponsored 3/26/2026
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