President Joe Biden’s administration proposed a new public lands rule emphasizing conservation. The “Conservation and Landscape Health” rule, first proposed in March, lists conservation as a use of BLM lands on par with grazing, recreation and resource extraction, among others.
“BLM’s use of climate change as a justification is hard to take seriously because the agency has been notorious in ignoring the climate impacts of the activities it presently permits,” Rocky Mountain PEER Director Chandra Rosenthal said in the release.