Joshua Tree National Park Expansion Act

This bill would expand the boundary of Joshua Tree National Park and move management of certain nearby federal lands from the Bureau of Land Management to the National Park Service. It also lets the Interior Department acquire additional land for the park from willing sellers, by donation, exchange, or transfer. Land owned by California or its local governments could only be added by donation or exchange. Finally, it would rename the Cottonwood Visitor Center as the Dianne Feinstein Visitor Center, and make a small technical fix to an existing map reference.

Key points:

• Who is affected: Park visitors, nearby communities, and agencies managing the land.
• What changes: Park boundaries grow; management shifts from BLM to the Park Service; rules set for adding land; Cottonwood Visitor Center is renamed the Dianne Feinstein Visitor Center.
• When: Changes take effect if the bill becomes law; the technical correction updates a prior map reference.