I
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 518
To designate certain lands in the California Desert as wilderness, to establish
the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave
National Monument, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 21, 1993
Mr. LEHMAN (for himself, Mr. MILLER of California, Mr. VENTO, Mr. STARK,
Mr. OWENS, Mr. OLVER, Mr. MFUME, Ms. PELOSI, Mr. MINETA, Mr.
MCDERMOTT, Mr. BROWN of California, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts,
Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. STOKES, Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms. MALONEY, and Mr.
HINCHEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Natural Resources
JUNE 18, 1993
Additional sponsors: Mr. BACCHUS of Florida, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. CONYERS,
Mr. CLAY, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. BEILENSON, Mr. EDWARDS of California,
Mr. BECERRA, Mr. SKAGGS, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. BONIOR, Mr. DELLUMS,
Ms. ESHOO, Mr. EVANS, Mr. TORRES, Mr. COOPER, Mr. TOWNS, Ms.
SLAUGHTER, Mr. BLACKWELL, Mr. FILNER, Mr. FAZIO, Mr. PAYNE of
New Jersey, Mr. STUDDS, Mr. TORRICELLI, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. SHAYS,
Mr. REYNOLDS, Mr. HAMBURG, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. NEAL of North Carolina,
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. MORAN, Mr. PORTER, Mr. RICHARDSON,
Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. BORSKI, Mr. GEJDENSON, Mr. COPPERSMITH,
Mr. HUGHES, Mr. MEEHAN, Mr. ACKERMAN, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. PRICE
of North Carolina, Mr. GILCHREST, Mr. DIXON, Mr. LANTOS, Mr.
FINGERHUT, Mr. HOAGLAND, Mr. JOHNSTON of Florida, Ms. SCHENK,
Mr. VALENTINE, and Ms. SHEPHERD
A BILL
To designate certain lands in the California Desert as wilder-
ness, to establish the Death Valley and Joshua Tree
National Parks and the Mojave National Monument, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That this Act may be cited as the ‘‘California Desert
Protection Act of 1993’’.
FINDINGS AND POLICY
SEC. 2. (a) The Congress finds and declares that—
(1) the federally owned desert lands of South-
ern California constitute a public wildland resource
of extraordinary and inestimable value for this and
future generations;
(2) these desert wildlands display unique scenic,
historical, archeological, environmental, ecological,
wildlife, cultural, scientific, educational, and rec-
reational values used and enjoyed by millions of
Americans for hiking and camping, scientific study
and scenic appreciation;
(3) the public land resources of the California
desert now face and are increasingly threatened by
adverse pressures which would impair, dilute, and
destroy their public and natural values;
(4) the California desert, embracing wilderness
lands, units of the National Park System, other
Federal lands, State parks and other State lands,
and private lands, constitutes a cohesive unit posing
unique and difficult resource protection and manage-
ment challenges;
(5) through designation of national monuments
by Presidential proclamation, through enactment of
general public land statutes (including section 601
of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of
1976, 90 Stat. 2743, 43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and
through interim administrative actions, the Federal
Government has begun the process of appropriately
providing for protection of the significant resources
of the public lands in the California desert; and
(6) statutory land unit designations are needed
to afford the full protection which the resources and
public land values of the California desert merit.
(b) In order to secure for the American people of this
and future generations an enduring heritage of wilderness,
national parks, and public land values in the California
desert, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Con-
gress that—
(1) appropriate public lands in the California
desert shall be included within the National Park
System and the National Wilderness Preservation
System, in order to—
(A) preserve unrivaled scenic, geologic, and
wildlife values associated with these unique nat-
ural landscapes;
(B) perpetuate in their natural state sig-
nificant and diverse ecosystems of the Califor-
nia desert;
(C) protect and preserve historical and cul-
tural values of the California desert associated
with ancient Indian cultures, patterns of west-
ern exploration and settlement, and sites exem-
plifying the mining, ranching and railroading
history of the Old West;
(D) provide opportunities for compatible
outdoor public recreation, protect and interpret
ecological and geological features and historic,
paleontological, and archeological sites, main-
tain wilderness resource values, and promote
public understanding and appreciation of the
California desert; and
(E) retain and enhance opportunities for
scientific research in undisturbed ecosystems.
TITLE I—WILDERNESS ADDITIONS
FINDINGS
SEC. 101. The Congress finds and declares that—
(1) wilderness is a distinguishing characteristic
of the public lands in the California desert, one
which affords an unrivaled opportunity for experi-
encing vast areas of the Old West essentially
unaltered by man’s activities, and which merits pres-
ervation for the benefit of present and future gen-
erations;
(2) the wilderness values of desert lands are in-
creasingly threatened by and especially vulnerable to
impairment, alteration, and destruction by activities
and intrusions associated with incompatible use and
development; and
(3) preservation of desert wilderness necessarily
requires the highest forms of protective designation
and management.
DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS
SEC. 102. In furtherance of the purpose of the Wil-
derness Act (78 Stat. 890, 16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), and
sections 601 and 603 of the Federal Land Policy and
Management Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 2743, 43 U.S.C. 1701
et seq.), the following lands in the State of California, as
generally depicted on maps, referenced herein, dated Feb-
ruary 1986 (except as otherwise dated), are hereby des-
ignated as wilderness, and therefore, as components of the
National Wilderness Preservation System:
(1) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management,
which comprise approximately seventy-four thousand
eight hundred and ninety acres, as generally de-
picted on a map entitled ‘‘Argus Range Wilder-
ness—Proposed 1’’, dated May 1991, and two maps
entitled ‘‘Argus Range Wilderness—Proposed 2’’
and ‘‘Argus Range Wilderness—Proposed 3’’, dated
January 1989, and which shall be known as the
Argus Range Wilderness.
(2) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management,
which comprise approximately ten thousand three
hundred and eighty acres, as generally depicted on
a map entitled ‘‘Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilder-
ness—Proposed’’, dated October 1991, and which
shall be known as the Bigelow Cholla Garden Wil-
derness.
(3) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management,
and within the San Bernardino National Forest,
which comprise approximately thirty-nine thousand
two hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map
entitled ‘‘Bighorn Mountain Wilderness—Proposed’’,
dated September 1991, and which shall be known as
the Bighorn Mountain Wilderness.
(4) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area and the Yuma District, of the Bu-
reau of Land Management, which comprise approxi-
mately forty-seven thousand five hundred and sev-
enty acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled
‘‘Big Maria Mountains Wilderness—Proposed’’, and
which shall be known as the Big Maria Mountains
Wilderness.
(5) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management,
which comprise thirteen thousand nine hundred and
forty acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled
‘‘Black Mountain Wilderness—Proposed’’, and which
shall be known as the Black Mountain Wilderness.
(6) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management,
which comprise approximately nine thousand five
hundred and twenty acres, as generally depicted on
a map entitled ‘‘Bright Star Wilderness—Proposed’’,
dated May 1991, and which shall be known as the
Bright Star Wilderness.
(7) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management,
which comprise approximately sixty-eight thousand
five hundred and fifteen acres, as generally depicted
on two maps entitled ‘‘Bristol Mountains Wilder-
ness—Proposed 1’’, and ‘‘Bristol Mountains Wilder-
ness—Proposed 2’’, dated September 1991, and
which shall be known as Bristol Mountains Wilder-
ness.
(8) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management,
which comprise approximately forty-two thousand six
hundred and forty acres, as generally depicted on a
map entitled ‘‘Cadiz Dunes Wilderness—Proposed’’,
and which shall be known as the Cadiz Dunes Wil-
derness.
(9) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management,
which comprise approximately eighty-five thousand
nine hundred and seventy acres, as generally de-
picted on a map entitled ‘‘Cady Mountains Wilder-
ness—Proposed’’, dated May 1991, and which shall
be known as the Cady Mountains Wilderness.
(10) Certain lands in the California Desert
Conservation Area and Eastern San Diego County,
of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise
approximately fifteen thousand seven hundred acres,
as generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Carrizo
Gorge Wilderness—Proposed’’, and which shall be
known as the Carrizo Gorge Wilderness.
(11) Certain lands in the California Desert
Conservation Area and Yuma District, of the Bu-
reau of Land Management, which comprise approxi-
mately sixty-four thousand six hundred and forty
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled
‘‘Chemehuevi 
Mountains 
Wilderness—Proposed’’,
dated October 1991, and which shall be known as
the Chemehuevi Mountains Wilderness.
(12) Certain lands in the Bakersfield District,
of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise
approximately thirteen thousand seven hundred
acres, as generally depicted on two maps entitled
‘‘Chimney Peak Wilderness—Proposed 1’’ and
‘‘Chimney Peak Wilderness—Proposed 2’’, dated
May 1991, and which shall be known as the Chim-
ney Peak Wilderness.
(13) Certain lands in the California Desert
Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately one hundred
fifty-eight thousand nine hundred and fifty acres, as
generally depicted on two maps entitled ‘‘Chuckwalla
Mountains 
Wilderness—Proposed 
1’’ 
and
‘‘Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness—Proposed 2’’,
dated January 1989, and which shall be known as
the Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness.
(14) Certain lands in the California Desert
Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise thirty-four thousand three
hundred and eighty acres, as generally depicted on
a map entitled ‘‘Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness—Pro-
posed’’, dated September 1991, and which shall be
known as the Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness. The Sec-
retary may, pursuant to an application filed by the
Department of Defense, grant a right-of-way for,
and authorize construction of, a road within the area
depicted as ‘‘non-wilderness road corridor’’ on such
map.
(15) Certain lands in the California Desert
Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately forty thousand
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Clip-
per Mountain Wilderness—Proposed’’, dated May
1991, and which shall be known as Clipper Moun-
tain Wilderness.
(16) Certain lands in the California Desert
Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately fifty thousand
five hundred and twenty acres, as generally depicted
on a map entitled ‘‘Coso Range Wilderness—Pro-
posed’’, dated May 1991, and which shall be known
as Coso Range Wilderness.
(17) Certain lands in the California Desert
Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately eighteen thou-
sand six hundred acres, as generally depicted on a
map entitled ‘‘Coyote Mountains Wilderness—Pro-
posed’’, dated May 1991, and which shall be known
as Coyote Mountains Wilderness.
(18) Certain lands in the California Desert
Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately eight thousand
six hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map
entitled 
‘‘Darwin 
Falls 
Wilderness—Proposed’’,
dated May 1991, and which shall be known as Dar-
win Falls Wilderness.
(19) Certain lands in the California Desert
Conservation Area and the Yuma District, of the
Bureau of Land Management, which comprise ap-
proximately forty-eight thousand eight hundred and
fifty acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled
‘‘Dead Mountains Wilderness—Proposed’’, dated
October 1991, and which shall be known as Dead
Mountains Wilderness.
(20) Certain lands in the Bakersfield District,
of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise
approximately thirty-six thousand three hundred
acres, as generally depicted on two maps entitled
‘‘Domeland Wilderness Additions—Proposed 1’’ and
‘‘Domeland Wilderness Additions—Proposed 2’’, and
which are hereby incorporated in, and which shall be
deemed to be a part of, the Domeland Wilderness as
designated by Public Laws 93–632 and 98–425.
(21) Certain lands in the California Desert
Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately sixteen thou-
sand one hundred acres, as generally depicted on a
map entitled ‘‘El Paso Mountains Wilderness—Pro-
posed’’, and which shall be known as the El Paso
Mountains Wilderness.
(22) Certain lands in the California Desert
Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately twenty-six
thousand three hundred acres, as generally depicted
on a map entitled ‘‘Fish Creek Mountains Wilder-
ness—Proposed’’, dated May 1991, and which shall
be known as Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness.
(23) Certain lands in the California Desert
Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately twenty-eight
thousand one hundred and ten acres, as generally
depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Funeral Mountains Wil-
derness—Proposed’’, dated May 1991, and which
shall be known as Funeral Mountains Wilderness.
(24) Certain lands in the California Desert
Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately thirty-seven
thousand seven hundred acres, as generally depicted
on a map entitled ‘‘Golden Valley Wilderness—Pro-
posed’’, and which shall be known as Golden Valley
Wilderness.
(25) Certain lands in the California Desert
Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately thirty-one thou-
sand seven hundred and twenty acres, as generally
depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Grass Valley Wilder-
ness—Proposed’’, and which shall be known as the
Grass Valley Wilderness.
(26) Certain lands in the California Desert
Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately eight thousand
eight hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map
TRANSFER OF LANDS
SEC. 403. Upon enactment of this title, the Secretary
shall transfer the lands under the jurisdiction of the Bu-
reau of Land Management depicted on the maps described
in section 402 of this title, without consideration, to the
administrative jurisdiction of the Director of the National
Park Service. The boundaries of the public lands shall be
adjusted accordingly.
MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION
SEC. 404. Within six months after the enactment of
this title, the Secretary shall file maps and a legal descrip-
tion of the monument designated under this title with the
Energy and Natural Resources Committee of the Senate
and the Natural Resources Committee of the House of
Representatives. Such maps and legal description shall
have the same force and effect as if included in this title,
except that the Secretary may correct clerical and typo-
graphical errors in such legal description and in the maps
referred to in section 402. The maps and legal description
shall be on file and available for public inspection in the
offices of the National Park Service, Department of the
Interior.
ABOLISHMENT OF SCENIC AREA
SEC. 405. The East Mojave National Scenic Area,
designated on January 13, 1981 (46 FR 3994), and modi-