To ensure that Big Cypress National Preserve may not be designated as wilderness or as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System, and for other purposes.
Summary
What This Bill Does
H.R. 1192 bars Big Cypress National Preserve from being designated as wilderness or added to the National Wilderness Preservation System. The local database has no extracted clauses for this row, so this analysis is grounded in the official bill title and Congress.gov text context. Wilderness designation is a high-protection land-management status that generally limits mechanized access, development, and many discretionary uses. The bill would preserve more management flexibility for access, recreation, infrastructure, fire management, and local use at Big Cypress, while blocking conservation groups from obtaining the stronger statutory protections that a wilderness designation would provide.
Who Benefits and How
Off-road recreation users benefit because wilderness designation limits many forms of mechanized access. Local communities near Big Cypress benefit if preserve management retains more flexibility for access, maintenance, and emergency operations. Florida officials opposing wilderness designation benefit from a federal statutory bar rather than relying on agency discretion. National Park Service managers benefit from avoiding a wilderness-management overlay if they prefer existing preserve authorities.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Wilderness conservation organizations lose the chance to secure National Wilderness Preservation System status for Big Cypress. Wildlife habitat advocates bear the burden if lands remain open to uses that wilderness rules would restrict. National Park Service planners must manage the preserve without using wilderness designation as a conservation tool. Members of Congress favoring stronger public-land protection lose one designation path for the preserve.
Key Provisions
- Prohibits wilderness designation for Big Cypress National Preserve.
- Blocks inclusion of the preserve in the National Wilderness Preservation System.
- Preserves management flexibility that could be constrained by wilderness status.
- Limits future agency or congressional use of wilderness designation for this specific preserve.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Prohibits Big Cypress National Preserve from being designated as wilderness or as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
Key Policy Areas
Public Lands, National Parks, Wilderness
Primary Purpose
Prohibits Big Cypress National Preserve from being designated as wilderness or as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Off-road recreation users
- Local communities near Big Cypress
- Florida officials opposing wilderness designation
- National Park Service managers
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Wilderness conservation organizations
- Wildlife habitat advocates
- National Park Service planners
- Public-land protection advocates
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Scott Franklin of Florida (for himself, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. …
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Introduced in House
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