Tracy Stone-Manning, who served as director of the Bureau of Land Management during the Biden administration, wrote in a newly published editorial that the future of BLM rangelands is in peril due to lack of funding, staff cutbacks and current agency policies.
Those policies have moved BLM away from “core conservation functions” needed to protect public lands for future generations, Stone-Manning said in the op-ed — titled “What I Learned Running the BLM” — published Tuesday in the online magazine Compact.
Although Stone-Manning never mentions the Trump administration by name, she takes direct aim at the changes implemented since she left the agency.
“Now the situation has reached a breaking point,” she said, adding that recent moves at BLM “have destabilized the very institutions charged with stewarding our shared lands.”
