Bill > HR433

This bill, the Pine Forest Range Recreation Enhancement Act of 2013, designates approximately 26,000 acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Humboldt County, Nevada, as the Pine Forest Range Wilderness, making it part of the National Wilderness Preservation System, which protects lands in a natural state for conservation and recreation. The bill also releases certain other BLM lands within the Blue Lakes and Alder Creek wilderness study areas from further wilderness study if they are not designated as wilderness by this act, meaning they will be managed according to existing land management plans rather than being considered for wilderness status. Additionally, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to take necessary actions to control fire, insects, and diseases within the designated wilderness, and the bill permits land exchanges involving federal and non-federal lands in Humboldt County, with any acquired lands being incorporated into and managed as part of the Pine Forest Range Wilderness Area.