Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection Act of 2025

This bill would designate federal land in and around Gunnison County, Colorado, as special management areas, wildlife conservation areas, protection areas, recreation management areas, and a scientific research and education area, and would add land to new and existing wilderness areas. In these areas, off-highway vehicle and bicycle use would generally be limited to routes designated on the date the law takes effect, new road building and commercial timber harvesting would be barred with some exceptions, and the land would be closed to new mining claims and mineral leasing. It would also withdraw certain federal land in Delta County from oil and gas leasing. It would require the Interior Department, if the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe requests, to take about 19,080 acres of tribe-owned land into trust, with gaming not allowed on that land. Existing grazing rules, state water rights, and tribal treaty rights would continue to apply.

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Sponsors

• Michael F. Bennet Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors