HR 5497
Cleared committee
Renames Apostle Islands National Lakeshore as Apostle Islands National Park and Preserve, with a park area that bans hunting and trapping (except where Tribal treaty or other legal rights allow it) and a preserve area that keeps the hunting and trapping rules in place the day before enactment.
Official title: Apostle Islands National Park and Preserve Act
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House
Introduced
18-SEP-2025
Referred
18-SEP-2025
Approved by committee
11-FEB-2026
- Renames Apostle Islands National Lakeshore as Apostle Islands National Park and Preserve, administered by the Interior Secretary as a single unit of the National Park System.
- Prohibits hunting and trapping in the park, except where a treaty, statute, or executive order pertaining to a Tribe permits it; in the preserve, hunting and trapping follow the rules in place the day before enactment.
- Keeps fishing rules in both areas the same as the day before enactment, and leaves private-land hunting, fishing, and trapping governed by state and federal law.
- Preserves treaty, statutory, and executive-order rights of Tribes, and creates no buffer zone around the Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light.
- Requires interpretive signage at the main visitor centers on regional history, and a copy of the Act.
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Public Lands and Natural Resources
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