What does this lands package mean for California?

the omnibus Senate package.
The following areas will become wilderness (this makes the omnibus package the 4th largest wilderness bill in California history):
--Agua Tibia Proposed Wilderness Additions
--Ansel Adams Proposed Wilderness Additions
--Beauty Mountain Proposed Wilderness
--Cahuilla Mountain Proposed Wilderness
--Chuckwalla Mountains Proposed Wilderness Additions
--Granite Mountain Proposed Wilderness
--Hoover Proposed Wilderness Additions
--John Krebs Proposed Wilderness (this is in Sequoia-Kings)
--John Muir Proposed Wilderness Additions
--Joshua Tree Proposed Wilderness Additions
--Magic Mountain Proposed Wilderness
--Orocopia Mountains Proposed Wilderness Additions
--Owens River Headwaters Proposed Wilderness
--Palen/McCoy Proposed Wilderness Additions
--Pinto Mountains Proposed Wilderness
--Pleasant View Ridge Proposed Wilderness
--Santa Rosa Wilderness Additions
--Sequoia-Kings Canyon NP Wilderness Additions
--South Fork San Jacinto Wilderness
--White Mountains Proposed Wilderness
The following streams will be designated as wild and scenic rivers:
--Amargosa River
--Bautista Creek
--Cottonwood Creek
--Fuller Mill Creek
--North Fork San Jacinto River
--Owens River Headwaters
--Palm Canyon Creek
--Piru Creek
It also:
--releases all or portions of 4 wilderness study areas
--designates an area in the White Mountains the "Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest"
--Establishes a fairly small snowmobile area in the Eastern Sierra
--Enlarges the San Jacinto-Santa Rosa Mountains National Monument
--Restores degraded portions of the San Joaquin River



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