The Department of the Interior has proposed the rescinding of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) 2024 Public Lands Rule, which was designed to conserve more public land rather than open these spaces to development.
The department argues the Public Lands Rule exceeded the BLM’s statutory authority by “placing an outsized priority on conservation or no-use at the expense of multiple-use access, threatening to curtail grazing, energy development, recreation and other traditional land uses.” The department equates conservation with “no use” and states eliminating the rule would “eliminate unnecessary barriers to energy development.”
The proposed rule is now open to a 60-day comment period, with input welcomed from the public.
“The previous administration’s Public Lands Rule had the potential to block access to hundreds of thousands of acres of multiple-use land – preventing energy and mineral production, timber management, grazing and recreation across the West,” said Secretary Doug Burgum in a statement. “The most effective caretakers of our federal lands are those whose livelihoods rely on its well-being. Overturning this rule protects our American way of life and gives our communities a voice in the land that they depend on.”
NO NO NO ! Public Lands are owned by We The People!
If our land is sold to developers & etc, the land will end up being devastated by luxury properties, oil wells & etc.
You are correct. Corruption will lead to the destruction of the last unspoiled land in this country. All for the profit of a few.
I thought this was about reversing the no-use and access restrictions. Not selling Public Lands to Private Parties?