The Trump administration is taking the final steps to undo one of former President Joe Biden’s signature conservation policies.
The White House is now reviewing a final rule that would revoke the Bureau of Land Management’s conservation and landscape health rule — commonly referred to as the public lands rule — which elevated conservation as a formal use on BLM rangelands.
The final rule proposal was sent for White House review on Friday, according to a post on the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs’ rules webpage.
BLM in September unveiled a draft proposal to rescind the rule, which Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said at the time “had the potential to block access to hundreds of thousands of acres of multiple-use land — preventing energy and mineral production, timber management, grazing and recreation across the West.”
