Outdoor Act Reauthorization Enjoys Broad Support in House

House lawmakers are setting the groundwork to extend a popular law that provides funding for public land maintenance, though the path forward is less clear in the Senate.

Almost 100 lawmakers, split evenly between Republicans and Democrats, signed onto House Committee on Natural Resources Chair Rep. Bruce Westerman’s (R-Ark.) Great American Outdoors Act 250.

The bill (H.R. 9250) extends some expired provisions of the Great American Outdoors Act passed in 2020, providing $1.9 billion over the next five years to address deferred maintenance on public lands managed by the National Park Service, US Forest Service, US Fish ...