Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning will return next year to the conservation advocacy world she left in late 2021 to lead the sprawling federal agency.
The Wilderness Society confirmed late Tuesday that Stone-Manning has agreed to become president of the environmental group, effective Feb. 24, after more than three years leading the bureau that oversees 245 million acres, mostly in the West.
The planned move represents a soft landing for a top Biden administration public lands official who will not be at the helm of BLM once President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated Jan. 20.
“The Wilderness Society, with its coalition-based approach, has been involved in nearly every public lands victory of the last century, and I am honored to have been selected to lead it into the future,” Stone-Manning said in a statement released by the group.
