A bipartisan Senate caucus aimed at protecting public lands charted its course at a launch event Monday, just months after a congressional push to sell public lands rallied dozens of lawmakers to kill the proposal.
The group, dubbed the “Senate Stewardship Caucus,” will focus on promoting bipartisan legislation to conserve public lands and waters.
“We are at an inflection point with our public lands,” co-Chair Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) said at the launch in Washington’s Union Station. “It’s time we reinvigorate our focus on stewarding those public lands, how those public lands work together, how they work with their local communities, how they work with industry and make sure that we are actually serving the needs of the American people.”
The event was hosted by Nature Is Nonpartisan, a group founded by conservative climate advocate Benji Backer.
