Joshua Tree National Park Expansion Act
Committee hearing: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Committee hearing
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Dec 9, 2025
What it does
The Joshua Tree National Park Expansion Act would amend the California Desert Protection Act of 1994 to expand the park’s boundary by approximately 20,149 acres, transferring administrative jurisdiction of that land from the Bureau of Land Management to the National Park Service. It would also redesignate the Cottonwood Visitor Center as the Dianne Feinstein Visitor Center and allow the Secretary of the Interior to acquire additional land within the expanded boundary through donation, purchase, exchange, or transfer—except for state-owned land, which may only be acquired by donation or exchange. A technical correction updates a map reference in the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation,…
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