Trump’s latest executive order applies to more than the National Park Service. According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit watchdog organization, it also impacts the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which will now have just two people designated as the “primary purchasers” for the entire agency. BLM manages 245 million acres of public lands.
“It’s going to be a bottleneck with all sorts of requests coming in to the same person who has to approve them,” Chandra Rosenthal, the director of Rocky Mountain PEER, told GearJunkie. “This is part of the larger plan to make federal employees quit … It’s just a crisis moment right now.”
