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Calendar No. 434
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 118-189
MOUNT BLUE SKY WILDERNESS ACT
JULY 10, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. MANCHIN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 3044]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 3044), to redesignate the Mount Evans Wilder-
ness as the Mount Blue Sky Wilderness, and for other purposes,
having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without
amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 3044 is to redesignate the Mount Evans Wil-
derness in Colorado as the Mount Blue Sky Wilderness.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Mount Evans Wilderness area, located in the Arapaho and
Pike National Forests, was established in 1980 by the Colorado
Wilderness Act (Public Law 96-560). The wilderness area is over-
looked by Mount Blue Sky, formerly known as Mount Evans, in the
Arapaho National Forest.
In September 2023, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' Do-
mestic Names Committee voted to change the name of Mount
Evans in Colorado as Mount Blue Sky. Mount Evans was originally
named after John Evans, the Territorial Governor of Colorado in
1862, who has been closely linked to the Sand Creek Massacre,
which occurred in 1864 and resulted in the killing of approximately
750 members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes in the area. The
name change reflects a commitment to honor the Cheyenne and
Arapaho Tribes, who played a key role in advocating for the redes-
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