{"id":5180,"date":"2019-05-10T06:57:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:21","slug":"the-john-d-dingell-jr-conservation-management-and-recreation-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=5180","title":{"rendered":"The John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dingell-law.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5181\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dingell-law.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1049\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dingell-law.jpg 1049w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dingell-law-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dingell-law-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dingell-law-1024x711.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1049px) 100vw, 1049px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLast month, after both House and Senate approval, the president signed into law the John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act. This sweeping act, cosponsored by senators Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), packaged together a raft of over 130 conservation bills addressing important issues such as the permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a national volcano-monitoring system, and protections against mineral extraction that could harm national parks.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, known in political circles as S.47, has been widely lauded for its expansive scope. A press release issued by Senator Cantwell called it \u201ca key tool to continue to solve our problems of access to public lands, particularly in parts of the country where the access to those public lands is being eroded by development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a relief for stewards of the North Country Scenic Trail (NCT), the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, and the American Discovery Trail (ADT), three of our nation\u2019s longest and most diverse trails, which will see significant development as a result of the act. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2394943\/dingell-conservation-act-impact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, after both House and Senate approval, the president signed into law the John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act. This sweeping act, cosponsored by senators Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), packaged together a raft of over 130 conservation bills addressing important issues such as the permanent reauthorization of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-lands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions\/5182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}