Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the designation of the Gila Wilderness.

Bill: 118-hconres-108
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Vasquez, Gabe [D-NM-2]
Introduced: 2024-05-23
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays

New Mexico

Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Latest action: action_date: 2024-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Summaries:
action_date: 2024-05-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This concurrent resolution commemorates the 100th anniversary of the designation of the Gila Wilderness, located in New Mexico.</p>

tv_txt: IV 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. CON. RES. 108 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 23, 2024 Mr. Vasquez submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the designation of the Gila Wilderness.

Whereas, on 3 June, 1924, the Forest Service set aside 755,000 acres as the Gila Wilderness; Whereas this was the first designated wilderness in the United States of America and the world; Whereas this designation marked the beginning of a national system of wilderness areas and helped inspire the Wilderness Act of 1964; Whereas Aldo Leopold, a Forest Service employee in New Mexico, worked to initiate a Federal wilderness concept in the back country of the Gila National Forest; Whereas Arthur Carhart, a Forest Service employee, argued that wilderness recreation would help to develop individual and national character; Whereas the Apache and Mimbres people have been stewards of this land from time immemorial; and Whereas these 100 years later, the character of the Gila remains without permanent human-built structures, protected and managed to preserve this condition, and remains a place unrestrained by human development: Now, therefore, be it

That we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the designation of the Gila Wilderness.