Bill > HR3369

This bill designates and expands several wilderness areas in Olympic National Forest in Washington State, creating new wilderness designations and adding acreage to existing wilderness areas, totaling approximately 126,554 acres. The bill establishes new wilderness areas such as Lost Creek, Rugged Ridge, Gates of the Elwha, Green Mountain, Moonlight Dome, and South Quinault Ridge, while also expanding existing wilderness areas like Buckhorn, The Brothers, Mount Skokomish, and Wonder Mountain. Additionally, the bill designates multiple river segments in the Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park as wild, scenic, or recreational rivers under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, including the Elwha, Dungeness, Big Quilcene, Dosewallips, Duckabush, Hamma Hamma, South Fork Skokomish, and several others. The bill ensures that these designations do not create buffer zones, do not interfere with existing rights or treaties, and allow for management activities like fire control and pest management. The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior are responsible for administering these new wilderness and river segments, with provisions for updating land management plans and allowing for ecological restoration projects.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3369/all-info