The Bureau of Land Management has quietly withdrawn internal guidance documents instructing staff how to implement a wide variety of Biden administration priorities, including removing a racial slur about Native American women from place names and implementing a key aspect of the controversial public lands rule.
The bureau rescinded at least a dozen instruction memorandums, called IMs, that direct BLM field offices and district office staffers on how to implement key policy measures. Most of the rescinded documents now state that they are being revoked to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order that dismissed “harmful executive orders and actions” from the Biden administration.
A BLM spokesperson said some of the IMs could be reactivated at a later date based on additional analysis.
The bureau began to rescind specific IMs — marked with a red “inactive” on BLM’s policy webpage listing the memos — this week, though a few list earlier dates this month.
