Oregon Owyhee Wilderness and Community Protection Act

This bill would create a grazing management program on Bureau of Land Management land in Malheur County, Oregon, letting ranchers with permits adjust grazing dates, pasture rotation, and water placement with written notice. It would designate about 924,440 acres as wilderness in 22 areas and create two special management areas, while allowing existing livestock grazing, certain road use, and fire and weed control to continue. It would release other federal land in the county from wilderness study status and limit the Secretary of the Interior from restricting grazing or certain motorized access on lands listed in a 2024 resource management plan. It would also create an 8-member local group to propose restoration and other projects, and would place certain lands into trust for the Burns Paiute Tribe, including about 2,500 acres at Castle Rock, with a co-stewardship area there.

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Sponsors

• Cliff Bentz Republican sponsor
• 0 cosponsors