§7202 Establishment of the National Landscape Conservation System

Summary

Creates the National Landscape Conservation System inside the Bureau of Land Management to conserve, protect, and restore important cultural, ecological, and scientific lands for people now and in the future. It must include BLM national monuments, national conservation areas, wilderness study areas, national scenic or historic trails that are part of the National Trails System, parts of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, parts of the National Wilderness Preservation System, and any areas Congress specifically sets aside for conservation, including the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area, the Headwaters Forest Reserve, the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, public land in the California Desert Conservation Area managed for conservation, and any other areas Congress adds. The Secretary must manage the system under any laws that already apply to each part and must protect the reasons each place was set aside. Nothing here changes those existing laws (for example, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the Wilderness Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the National Trails System Act, or the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976). It also does not affect state control of fish and resident wildlife or limit hunting, fishing, trapping, or recreational shooting or access for those activities on BLM lands.