ID HJM002

Opposes any national monument designation in the Caldera area of the Island Park region in eastern Idaho under the 1906 Antiquities Act.

States that cattle ranching and agriculture, which contribute nearly $7.6 billion to Idaho's economy across 11.7 million acres, would be substantially impacted by monument designation and restrictions on development and resource extraction.

Argues that the Idaho Roadless Rule (2006) established a collaborative framework for managing over nine million acres of federal backcountry and that unilateral monument designation would overturn this agreement without consensus.

Notes that an advisory vote in Fremont County in November 2014 showed approximately 93 percent of 3,798 voters opposed the national monument designation.

Directs that future federal land management decisions for Idaho lands be made through local collaboration rather than unilateral administrative processes that exclude Idaho residents.