A Senate Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee will examine a list of bills Tuesday, with topics ranging from establishing new national park units to restoring the name of an Alaska mountain.
The National Parks Subcommittee — helmed by Sens. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Angus King (I-Maine) — will consider proposals from both Republican and Democratic members. It’s part of the committee’s increased legislative activity.
Many of the bills are unlikely to become law in the current political climate. Several of the measures, for example, push back on the Trump administration’s effort to clamp down on national parks and reshape how history is told by park rangers.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s S. 573 would designate the Alaska mountain peak currently dubbed Mount McKinley as Denali — a Koyukon Athabascan word for “great one.”
