Republicans and Democrats remain far apart on federal land management, a fact highlighted by dueling events Monday.
Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), on a conference call Monday celebrating the Bureau of Land Management’s finalization last week of a conservation and landscape health rule that elevates conservation as a management priority, praised the rule and vowed to fight for it against strong Republican opposition.
She called it a “historic step in protecting our public lands, our cultural sites, wildlife corridors, and ensuring that everyone has access to these lands.”
She added: “And it brings a modern and a 21st century world view of the Federal Land Policy Management Act, which for many decades has been managed with the idea that lands are there for extraction and for use without protection.”
