The U.S. House of Representatives voted 277-140 today to pass HR 2016, the National Landscape Conservation System Act. Passage of the legislation is one of the Outdoor Industry Association's major goals in the current Congress.
The act formally recognizes and protects 26 million acres of Bureau of Land Management terrain, including 15 national monuments, 13 national conservation areas, thousands of important cultural sites, and historic trails, mountains, wild and scenic rivers, and wilderness areas. National treasures such as Utahs Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the Sonoran Desert, Oregons lower Deschutes River, and stretches of the Pacific Crest and Continental Divide trails are part of the System.
