YourVoice.Now Summary
EnvironmentCivil LibertiesTransparency & AccountabilityYosemite and the forest next door would trade land — the park would shrink by about 10 acres.
Environment
About 160 acres of Stanislaus National Forest would move to the Park Service. Park rules would then cover that ground.
About 170 acres now inside Yosemite would move to the Forest Service. It would be run as part of Stanislaus National Forest. The land stays federal, but forest rules would replace park rules, and forest rules make room for grazing.
Civil Liberties
Say you hold a permit, lease, or right-of-way on either piece of land. It would keep its terms, but a new agency would handle it.
Transparency & Accountability
The two agencies could later agree to small fixes to the new boundary lines. A fix would take effect only when printed in the Federal Register, the government's daily notice journal.
More about this bill
If you have never walked the western edge of Yosemite, you would notice nothing. Two small pieces of federal land near the park line in Tuolumne County, California would change hands between agencies. About 160 acres of Stanislaus National Forest would join Yosemite National Park. About 170 acres of the park would go the other way, to the Forest Service. Yosemite would end up about 10 acres smaller. Both parcels sit around Ackerson Meadow, which the park gained in 2016. National forest wraps around most of it, and the trade would give each agency a cleaner line to manage. Each piece would then follow the rules of the agency that takes it over. Cattle graze part of this ground, and forest rules make room for grazing. Permits, leases, and easements already on the land would stay good. Nothing in the bill deals with pollution or cleanup on the traded land.
Congressional Summary
Congress's official summary of this bill still describes an earlier version of the text, so we have left it out here. You can read it on Congress.gov.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-04-22
- Date Added
- 2026-06-08
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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