Federal Grazing Land Jurisdiction Transfers

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

Evidence log

• 2025-12-11 — CLAIM Act of 2025: Cross-reference: CLAIM Act of 2025 (HR6674) introduced in the 119th Congress and referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources — likely House companion or counterpart to S5049; substantive text and effect on federal land jurisdiction not yet available. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-23 — Grasslands Grazing Act of 2025: Cross-reference: Grasslands Grazing Act of 2025 (S2787) placed on Senate Legislative Calendar (No. 485) — another grazing-focused bill advancing in parallel; substantive mechanism not yet detailed but adds to the cluster of active federal grazing legislation. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-23 — Strategic Grazing to Reduce Risk of Wildfire Act: Cross-reference: Strategic Grazing to Reduce Risk of Wildfire Act (S1981) placed on Senate Legislative Calendar — distinct mechanism (using grazing as a fuel-reduction tool on retained federal lands) rather than transferring grazing land jurisdiction, but relevant to the broader question of how federal grazing allotments are managed. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-03-11 — To require congressional approval before the sale, disposal, declaration of excess or surplus, transfer, or conveyance of Federal property with historical significance, and for other purposes.: Cross-reference: HR2046 would require congressional approval before disposal, transfer, or conveyance of federal property with historical significance — a general oversight overlay that could interact with tribal trust transfers and other federal land conveyances if the parcels involved have historical significance. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-03-14 — North Dakota Trust Lands Completion Act of 2025: 2025-XX-XX — North Dakota Trust Lands Completion Act of 2025 (S1084) introduced and referred to Senate ENR; addresses completion of state trust land arrangements in North Dakota — distinct mechanism from tribal trust transfers or grazing jurisdiction changes (state school trust land completion rather than federal-to-tribal or federal-to-state grazing transfers). (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
• 2026-05-12 — Rescission of Conservation and Landscape Health Rule: BLM issued a final rule fully rescinding the 2024 Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, restoring multiple-use/sustained-yield as the governing framework for BLM lands including grazing allotments — removes the conservation-leasing overlay that would have applied alongside grazing permits. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-12-17 — New Mexico Land Grant-Mercedes Historical or Traditional Use Cooperation and Coordination Act: Cross-reference: NM Land Grant-Mercedes Federal Coordination Act takes a different approach to federal land access for historically underserved communities — rather than transferring jurisdiction, it directs BLM and Forest Service to enter an MOU with the NM Land Grant Council to authorize traditional uses on retained federal land. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-05-20 — Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act: cross-connection with lower-elwha-klallam-land-into-trust: Both are tribe-specific land-into-trust bills that add acreage to a reservation while prohibiting gaming on the transferred land — same procedural template applied to different tribes. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-05-20 — Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025: HR2302 (Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025) introduced — would transfer ~204.14 acres in El Dorado County, CA into federal trust as part of the tribe’s reservation, with gaming prohibited on the transferred land. (novelty: 2)

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