The Bureau of Land Management was formed out of the General Land Office, which sold and distributed public land to settlers, and the Grazing Service, which settled the range wars on the side of the farmers.
Its mission under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act is "The management of the public lands and their various resource values so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the present and future needs of the American people".
The federal agency, which is not a legislative body, is proposing to dramatically modify the Federal Register to redefine conservation, or non-use of the land, as a "Primary purpose" and then offer "Conservation leases" to leftists to lock up the land and prevent if from being used for grazing or drilling.
The Bureau of Land Management's leadership is proposing to unilaterally transform its functioning from managing exploitable resources on behalf of the public to banning exploitation of those resources while potentially turning over as much as 10% of the nation's land to leftists.
BLM's "Conservation leases" would allow environmentalist groups and others to seize public lands and potentially place them off limits under the guise of "Restoring public lands".
BLM's package of proposals would 'Californicate' land management across the country leading to the same measures that crushed farmers, ranchers, energy extraction and mining, created droughts and forest fires, while abandoning productive land to cartels for illegal drug cultivation in what was once a prosperous state for people outside San Francisco and Los Angeles, and industries other than Hollywood and Big Tech.
A proposed land health assessment would apply California-style "Watershed function, ecological processes, water quality, and wildlife habitat" analysis to provide countless reasons to block any land use.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-to-turn-over-10-of-americas-land-to-the-left/
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