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Committee sides with local landowners in move to block implementation of Mule Shoe Refuge expansion plan
Summary
The committee adopted a substitute and ordered H.R. 839, a bill that prohibits implementation of the Mule Shoe National Wildlife Refuge land protection plan. Debate split between members who called the measure protection of private property and those who said it would block voluntary conservation and local planning.
The House Committee on Natural Resources on July 22 adopted an amendment in the nature of a substitute and ordered H.R. 839, a bill that would prohibit the implementation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s land protection plan for the Mule Shoe National Wildlife Refuge in West Texas and eastern New Mexico.
Representative Jodey Arrington had introduced the bill; proponents argued the plan would expand the refuge up to 100 times its current size and impose substantial new management costs on the federal refuge system. Supporters said the Fish and…
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