Raúl Grijalva: “The Endangered Species Act works, bedrock or not.”

This law would apply to all of our public lands, including national parks, wilderness areas, and BLM land.

The bill gives anyone the ability to stake a mining claim, whether there are valuable minerals on the land or not.

This amendment says that this act cannot take effect until the Secretary certifies that the Bureau of Land Management and other Federal permitting agencies have sufficient staff and funding to actually comply with the deadlines established…

We urge Congress to reject legislative proposals that make this colonial-era law worse.