White Mountain Nature Center

Representative Ann Kirkpatrick has introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to tranfer ownership of the Big Springs Environmental Study Area from the US Forest Service to the Blue Ridge Unified School District.  This bill is known as HR 5212.

 

HR 5212 will amend Public Law 105-344 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the Blue Ridge Unified School District that portion of the Woodland Lake Park tract in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in the State of Arizona containing the Big Springs Environmental Study Area.  This bill has been assigned to the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.  Representative Jeff Flake, AZ CD 6, is the lone-Arizonan on this Subcommittee.  Calls of support to Representative Flake's Washington office are summarized and communicated to Congressman Flake.  That phone number is: (202) 225-2635.

 

The House is meeting Monday through Thursday this summer.  The summer recess is scheduled to begin on August 9, with Congress scheduled to reconvene on September 14.