The plan also contains “unusual provisions to benefit” big agriculture, said Chandra Rosenthal, western lands and rocky mountain advocate with the Public Employees For Environmental Responsibility (Peer) non-profit.
Among those is the establishment of “immersion and training programs for new and existing federal employees to the daily life, decisions, and dilemmas of ranchers”, Peer noted. The memorandum makes little mention of rangeland environmental conditions and instead the plan will “deregulate”, “streamline” and “incorporate beneficial flexibility”.