The record

LegislationLegislation· Oct 2025
HR 197 Passed House — in Senate

Sponsored by Pete Stauber (R)

Lake Winnibigoshish Land Exchange Act of 2025

Directs the Forest Service to exchange land with a private company along Lake Winnibigoshish in Minnesota.

Tradeoff

The Forest Service gains about 36.7 acres near Lake Winnibigoshish. In exchange, it gives up about 17.5 acres of federal forest land to Big Winnie Land and Timber, LLC.

What's in it

See official bill text

Negligible impact on the deficit over 2026-2035, with costs between zero and $500,000.

The negligible federal cost reflects only the foregone permit revenue from the exchanged land; the policy's real impact is the transfer of federal forest acreage to private ownership in exchange for a larger private parcel, with the corporation covering all transaction costs.

H.R. 197, Lake Winnibigoshish Land Exchange Act of 2025 · Feb 2026

Passed the House by on January 21, 2025 — sitting in the Senate.

  1. House

    Introduced

    (Jan 3, 2025)

  2. House

    Committee on Natural Resources(Jan 3, 2025)

  3. House

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (Jan 21, 2025)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  4. Senate

    Received from the House

    on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry(Jan 22, 2025)

  5. Senate

    The Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry voted to send it to the floor

    Reported(Oct 21, 2025)