Coalition Urges Senate Not To Open Wilderness Areas To Mountain Bikes.
”Local offices must seek to accommodate all forms of nonmotorized travel to the maximum extent practicable. If a local office fails to make such a determination about a route within two years after this bill’s enactment, then any form of nonmotorized travel shall be allowable on that route.”
“We strongly oppose S. 1695, and encourage subcommittee members to oppose this legislation as well,” the group said in a letter to U.S. Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, of the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining, which has been considering the measure. “S. 1695 seeks to open federal wilderness areas to mountain biking, a clear violation of the 1964 Wilderness Act, the nation’s seminal conservation law. Most importantly, S. 1695 would threaten the character of the entire National Wilderness Preservation System by undermining our nation’s bedrock landscape conservation tool.”
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Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining
Total Members: 17
Majority Members (9) | Minority Members (8) |
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Lee, Mike (UT), Chairman Barrasso, John (WY) Risch, James E. (ID) Daines, Steve (MT) Cassidy, Bill (LA) Gardner, Cory (CO) Hyde-Smith, Cindy (MS) Hoeven, John (ND) Murkowski, Lisa (AK), Ex Officio |
Wyden, Ron (OR), Ranking Member Cantwell, Maria (WA) Stabenow, Debbie (MI) Heinrich, Martin (NM) Hirono, Mazie K. (HI) King, Angus S. (ME) Cortez Masto, Catherine (NV) Manchin, Joe (WV), Ex Officio |