A House Natural Resources subcommittee this week will highlight the Bureau of Land Management’s multiple-use mandate and moves by President Donald Trump to fully restore it after Republicans say the Biden administration undermined it with conservation-minded policies.
The Federal Lands Subcommittee hearing will target “unpopular national monument expansions, restrictive resource management plans, and other ill-advised policies” and their impacts, according to information provided by Republican staffers on the Natural Resources Committee. Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) is chair of the subcommittee.
BLM’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, commonly referred to as the public lands rule, will be a major point of discussion during the hearing, which will not focus on any specific bills, according to the GOP information.
That rule, implemented in June, places conservation on par with livestock grazing, energy development, mining and other uses of bureau rangelands. Critics have said the rule’s intent is to restrict grazing and other uses on bureau rangelands.
