Central Coast Heritage Protection Act

1959

115th Congress

Introduced

Summary

Central Coast Heritage Protection Act This bill designates specified lands in the Bakersfield Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and in the Lost Padres National Forest in California as wilderness areas and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. It also designates certain land in Los Padres National Forest as the Machesna Mountain Potential Wilderness Area, which shall be incorporated into the Machesna Mountain Wilderness Area. Specified segments of the Indian, Mono, Matilija, Sespe, and Piru Creeks and Sisquoc River in California are designated as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Certain land in the Los Padres National Forest in California is designated as the Fox Mountain Potential Wilderness Area, which shall be incorporated into the San Rafael Wilderness. This bill designates specified land: (1) in Los Padres National Forest as the Condor Ridge Scenic Area; and (2) in Los Padres National Forest and in the BLM Bakersfield Field Office as the Black Mountain Scenic Area. The Department of Agriculture shall: (1) study connecting the northern and southern parts of the Los Padres National Forest using a trail corridor across parts of the Northern and Southern Santa Lucia Mountains of the Southern California Coastal Range; (2) designate the Condor National Recreation Trail, extending from Lake Piru to the Botchers Gap Campground in the Monterey County corridor in California; and (3) conduct a study to improve nonmotorized recreation trail opportunities (including mountain bicycling) on land not designated as wilderness within the Santa Barbara, Ojai, and Mt. Pinos ranger districts. The Forest Service shall study the feasibility of opening a new trail, for vehicles measuring 50 inches or less, connecting Forest Service Highway 95 to the existing off-highway vehicle trail system in the Ballinger Canyon off-highway vehicle area. Indian tribes shall be assured access to the wilderness areas, scenic areas, and potential wilderness areas designated by this bill for traditional cultural and religious purposes.

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Support for: Land Water Conservation Fund reauthorization; H.R. 502/S. 569 which amends the Land and Water; H.R.4644 - Yellowstone Gateway Protection Act; H.R.5636 - Flatside Wilderness Enhancement Act; S.441 - Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Conservation Act; S.483 - Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act; S.941 - Yellowstone Gateway Protection Act; S.1403 - 21st Century Conservation Service Corps Act of 2017; S.1522 - Every Kid Outdoors Act; S.3550 - Public Land Recreational Opportunities Improvement Act; S.3333 - Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2018; S.2078 - Advancing Conservation and Education Act; S.2249 - Rio Puerco Watershed Management Program Reauthorization Act of 2017; S.2889 - Medgar Evers Home National Monument Act; S.3287 - Camp Nelson Heritage National Monument Act; restore Our Parks Act (HR 6510), and support inclusion of, or action on, LWCF legislation within that markup (HR 502); America's Public Lands Act (No bill number); H.R.6410 - ANTIQUITIES Act of 2018; HR 5911 Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act; S.2721 - San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act; HR 2323 San Gabriel Mountains Foothills and Rivers Protection Act; HR 3039 San Gabriel Mountains Forever Act of 2017; Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act S. 507; S. 1959 Central Coast Heritage Protection; S.2907 - Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2018; Expressed views on: H.R. 5727: Emery County Public Lands Act; H.R.6682 - Protection and Transparency for Adjacent Landowners Act; S.414 - Pershing County Economic Development and Conservation Act; H.R.6365 - Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Land Claims Act of 2018; S.785 - Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act; S.1481 - Alaska Native Claims Settlement Improvement Act of 2017; S.1987 - Pottawattamie County Reversionary Interest Conveyance Act; H.R.2075 - Crooked River Ranch Fire Protection Act; S.2160 - Protect Collaboration for Healthier Forests Act; S.2297 - Custer County Airport Conveyance Act; S.3245 - Lake Fannin Conveyance Act; S.1222 - La Paz County Land Conveyance Act; HR 2 (Farm Bill); H.R.5513 - Big Bear Land Exchange Act; H.R.6299 - Nevada Lands Bill Technical Corrections Act of 2018; H.R.6678 - Claude Moore Farm Land Conveyance Act; S.3297 - Washington County, Utah, Public Land Act; ; HR 5515 John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019; H.R.5347 - Lyon County Economic Development and Environmental Remediation Act; H.R.2630 - La Paz County Land Conveyance Act; S.3172 - Restore Our Parks Act