America's Red Rock Wilderness Act

Summary

Designates numerous federal land units across western Utah as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, protecting scenic, cultural, and ecological values and preserving traditional uses. Requires the Bureau of Land Management (acting through the Secretary of the Interior) to file maps and legal descriptions, administer the areas under existing federal land laws, protect reserved federal water rights, and consider land exchanges for State school trust lands while protecting federal mineral interests.

• Designates numerous named federal land units in western Utah as wilderness and adds them to the National Wilderness Preservation System.
• Individual wilderness units are listed with approximate acreages, ranging roughly from 4,000 to over 127,000 acres.
• Requires the Secretary (through BLM) to file maps and legal descriptions with congressional committees; those maps have the force of law except for clerical corrections.
• Directs administration of the new wilderness areas under the Wilderness Act and FLPMA, subject to valid existing rights.
• Reserves water for each wilderness area with a priority date equal to enactment and directs federal officers to protect and, if necessary, adjudicate those water rights.
• Requires the Secretary to offer federal land exchanges of approximately equal value for State school trust lands within designated wilderness areas; restricts transfers of federal mineral interests.
• Emphasizes protection of Indigenous cultural uses and the continuing ability for traditional activities in designated wilderness.
• Finds that the designations will enhance landscape connectivity, provide climate and conservation benefits, and contribute to national conservation goals.