A River Runs Through It Act

This bill sets new land designations on federal land in Montana. It creates six forest restoration areas, where the Forest Service would make restoration work such as thinning and prescribed burning a priority, and two Bureau of Land Management backcountry areas, ending wilderness study status for the Hoodoo Mountain and Wales Creek study areas. It creates recreation areas for motorized, mountain bike, and snowmobile use, a snowmobile trail corridor, and new trails. It adds about 130,000 acres to wilderness, creates new conservation management areas, and closes many of these areas to new mining and mineral leasing. It also states that it does not affect private property rights, state fish and wildlife authority, or tribal treaty rights.

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Sponsors

• Ryan K. Zinke Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors