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U.S. Senate approves bill to allow hunting to resume on National Monument (8/16/2002)

A bill that would restore hunting to a popular site in Idaho has been approved by the U.S. Senate and is headed to the president’s desk.

On August 1, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved H.R. 601, to reclassify two-thirds of the 661,000 acres of federal land that former President Bill Clinton added to the Craters of the Moon National Monument. The reclassified area would become a national preserve. Sportsmen will be permitted to hunt on the land.

"It was great to see Congress take the necessary action to place these lands under a regimen of wildlife management," said U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Manager of Government Affairs Rob Sexton. "We applaud sportsmen for taking action and contacting their Congressional representatives in support of this issue."

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