Keep fighting to protect land, natural resources, and the culture and traditions associated with them.

Ben Ray Luján is going to keep fighting to protect our land, our natural resources and the culture and traditions associated with them.

Lujan promised continued work to protect land, natural resources, and related culture and traditions.

On The Issues | Ben Ray Lujan for Congress
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The proclamation established the Río Grande del Norte National Monument in northern New Mexico, reserving approximately 242,555 acres. It identified cultural, prehistoric, historic, ecological, geologic, wildlife, river, and tribal-use resources for protection, and required tribal consultation and protection of religious and cultural sites.

During Lujan's House service, the Obama administration created a large protected monument in his district covering land, natural resources, and cultural resources closely matching the promise.

delivered same_term

Presidential Proclamation -- Río Grande del Norte National Monument
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Section 3061 designated approximately 45,000 acres of land in the Carson National Forest in New Mexico as the Columbine-Hondo Wilderness, a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Congress enacted a major northern New Mexico wilderness designation during Lujan's House tenure, directly protecting land and natural resources.

delivered same_term A for effort

Public Law 113-291, Carl Levin and Howard P. 'Buck' McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015
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The House vote on H.R. 3979 passed 300-119; the Clerk records Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico voting Yea.

Lujan voted for the final House vehicle that became Public Law 113-291, which included Columbine-Hondo Wilderness and Valles Caldera protections.

delivered same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, Roll Call 551, H.R. 3979
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Section 3043 designated Valles Caldera National Preserve as a unit of the National Park System to protect, preserve, and restore its fish, wildlife, watershed, natural, scientific, scenic, geologic, historic, cultural, archaeological, and recreational values.

The law moved Valles Caldera into the National Park System and expressly protected both natural and cultural resources in New Mexico during Lujan's House term.

delivered same_term A for effort

Public Law 113-291, Carl Levin and Howard P. 'Buck' McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015
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Section 3039 established the Manhattan Project National Historical Park to preserve and protect nationally significant historic resources; eligible areas included Los Alamos, New Mexico facilities and lands.

This enacted protection for historic and cultural resources in Lujan's district, though it addresses a narrower cultural-history component than the land-and-natural-resources portion of the promise.

partial same_term A for effort

Public Law 113-291, Carl Levin and Howard P. 'Buck' McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015
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Section 1202 designated the Cerro del Yuta Wilderness, approximately 13,420 acres in Taos County, and the Rio San Antonio Wilderness, approximately 8,120 acres in Rio Arriba County, within the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument.

Congress added more protected wilderness in northern New Mexico during Lujan's House tenure, further fulfilling the land and natural-resource protection commitment.

delivered same_term A for effort

Public Law 116-9, John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act
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The House passed S. 47 by 363-62; the Clerk records Representative Lujan of New Mexico voting Yea.

Lujan voted for the public-lands package that became Public Law 116-9, including New Mexico wilderness protections and permanent LWCF authorization.

delivered same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, Roll Call 95, S. 47 Natural Resources Management Act
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The Act established the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund for priority deferred maintenance across NPS, FWS, BLM, Forest Service, and Bureau of Indian Education assets, and provided permanent dedicated funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

This national conservation law supported ongoing protection and maintenance of public lands and natural resources before Lujan left the House.

delivered same_term A for effort

Public Law 116-152, Great American Outdoors Act
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The House passed the Great American Outdoors Act 310-107; the Clerk records Representative Lujan of New Mexico voting Yea.

Lujan voted for the enacted conservation funding and public-lands maintenance law, showing concrete action toward the promise during his House term.

delivered same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, Roll Call 155, H.R. 1957 Great American Outdoors Act
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The Interior Department withdrew federal lands surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park from specified mineral and geothermal leasing and development laws for a 20-year period, subject to valid existing rights.

In Lujan's later Senate service, the federal government delivered a time-limited protection for lands around a major cultural landscape in New Mexico. This supports the promise's cultural-resource component, though it was an executive action rather than an enacted Lujan bill.

partial later_term

Public Land Order No. 7923; Public Land Withdrawal Surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico
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The Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act proposed statutory withdrawal of federal minerals around Chaco Culture National Historical Park; Senator Ben Ray Lujan was listed among sponsors/cosponsors for the legislation.

The bill shows continued concrete effort in Lujan's later Senate term to protect culturally significant New Mexico lands, but the bill itself had not become law as of the assessment date.

partial later_term A for effort

S.1408 - Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2023
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