I’ve sat in on meetings of this kind, and have seen that BLM knows very well how to get the answers they want from this kind of “public hearing”.
Seriously, the federal government has no business owning millions of acres of land. The land and should be deeded back to the states, and BLM itself should be divided up and handed off to the states as well. They can make the decision if they want to have some kind of state-level BLM, or shut it down completely.
Actually, it would be better to privatize the land altogether. But thats another conversation perhaps. I’d settle for handing it off to the states.
I’m waiting for the politician with the grit to demand the elimination of BLM.
Along with the EPA, DoE, NEA, NPR, ACoE, PP, DoI etc etc, the BLM should be defunded and gotten rid of.