The United States Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests is one of four subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Jurisdiction[edit]

This subcommittee's jurisdiction includes oversight and legislative responsibilities for: public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service including farming and grazing thereon, and wilderness areas; establishment of wildlife refuges on public lands and wilderness designation therein; military land withdrawals; reserved water rights; Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; territorial affairs; national mining and minerals policy and general mining laws; surface mining, reclamation and enforcement; mining education and research; Federal mineral leasing; Outer Continental Shelf leasing; Naval oil shale reserves; National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska; and deep seabed mining.

Members, 118th Congress[edit]

See also[edit]

• U.S. House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands
• U.S. House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources

External links[edit]

• U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining, official web site