Bill > HR4877

This bill, known as the Central Coast Heritage Protection Act, establishes several significant land management designations in California's central coast region. It designates multiple new wilderness areas totaling approximately 242,480 acres across the Los Padres National Forest and Bureau of Land Management lands, including expansions to existing wilderness areas like Chumash, Dick Smith, and San Rafael Wilderness. The bill also designates two new scenic areas (Condor Ridge and Black Mountain), creates a 41,082-acre Fox Mountain Special Management Area, and adds several river segments to the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, including portions of Indian Creek, Mono Creek, Matilija Creek, Sespe Creek, Sisquoc River, and Piru Creek. Additionally, the bill requires the Forest Service to conduct studies on establishing a potential Condor National Scenic Trail, exploring new off-highway vehicle trail connections, and improving nonmotorized recreation opportunities. The legislation ensures continued activities like grazing and horseback riding in these areas, provides protections for tribal cultural access, and withdraws the designated lands from mining, mineral leasing, and other development activities, with the primary goals of conserving ecological, scenic, wildlife, recreational, and cultural resources for present and future generations.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

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