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, 119th Congress==