The House Just Passed an Act That Will Make It Easier for Hunters to Find and Access Public Lands

“The U.S. House of Representatives approved the MAPLand Act by an overwhelming bipartisan majority (414-9) last night. The bill aims to modernize mapping systems used by public-land agencies in order to make accessing and recreating on federal lands easier and less contentious. It will now move on to the Senate for a vote.

Introduced last year by co-sponsors Blake Moore (R-Utah), Kim Schrier (D-Wash.), Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho), and Joe Neguse (D-Colo.), the Modernizing Access to our Public Land Act directs federal land management agencies to consolidate, digitize, and make publicly available recreational access information as geospatial files. That’s the digital format commonly used by commercial mapping applications, phone geolocation services, and other modern digital cartographic services.”