Posted on 05/13/2023 6:24:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) doesn’t seem very interested in hearing from constituents who live near public land.
On Wednesday, the agency released its schedule for a tour of Western high mountain states during which BLM officials will present sweeping new regulations on public lands. The proposed Public Lands Rule, published at the end of March, threatens to undermine the multiple use mandate and jeopardizes grazing rights for ranchers. The bureau, which manages 245 million acres primarily across 12 Western states, is preparing to implement conservation leasing and cut off ranchers’ access to public lands.
The states to entertain a visit from BLM officials include Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada. Each state is represented by two Democrats in the Senate along with majority-Democrat House delegations. Not listed are Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah, where only one out of 16 members of their collective representation in Congress is an elected Democrat. Arizona also remains absent from the lineup, with six out of nine House members Republican.
With more than 90 percent of federal lands located west of the Mississippi River, the new rules will have the most impact in Western states, whose interests are often in conflict with those of Beltway bureaucrats. Recognizing where the BLM primarily manages land, the Trump administration moved the agency to Grand Junction, Colorado in 2020. President Joe Biden’s Interior secretary, Deb Haaland, moved offices of the bureau’s senior leadership back to Washington D.C. last summer.
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The leftist regime is slouching towards civil war (or at least vigilante action) day by day.
Give the land to the state. Problem solved-permanently.
>> Give the land to the state. Problem solved-permanently.
Heck, SELL the land to the state to defray the national debt.
Frankly, it could come down to that in a default situation. Happens all the time in a bankruptcy — assets are sold to pay creditors.
There is absolutely no reason, Multiuse has worked fine for more than 150 years.
Ha, ha. As if the left cares about what works and what doesn't work.
Trying to shut off grazing rights for ranchers again. The most hated entity in the West is the BLM. They harass hunters and miners all the time.
Mr. GG2 has had run ins with them in the past. Once on his mining claim and once out hunting with friends. They actually had to disarm a BLM agent because he got crazy and threatened to draw down on them for legally hunting. They left his gun at the local Sheriff’s office. 😉
The left wants what doesn’t ‘work’ so they can gain control sooner.
Agenda 21
Time for Sagebrush Rebellion II.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) doesn’t seem very interested in hearing from anyone.
This commie infiltration started , inho, with Bruce Babbit.
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Bruce Edward Babbitt is an American attorney and politician who served as the 47th United States Secretary of the Interior from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton)
I worked for the blm then.
I remember we got a new director for our blm district.
I asked my boss what her education was,,, land management ?, Silviculture ? Forestry ?
Nope.
Political Science degree.
Black woman.
You do the math.
No wonder my report to my boss that our wildlife biologist admitted to cooking the numbers on the spotted owl survey that I worked on , that used total acreage instead of suitable habitate acres , to get the owl on the endangered list , went nowhere except me losing my next NTE 180.
Spit.
According to the Constitution, the fed gov is only supposed to own land for gov buildings and forts, not vast vacant lands. So, the BLM seems like another illegal fed agency.
The Feds own more than half of the acres in the west. The mountain states like it less every day.
The Chevron case now before SCOTUS would stop alphabet agencies, like SLM, from making law in the guise of “regulations” or “mandates.”
Here’s hoping the judges make the right decision.
Sorry, SLM should be BLM. That’s what I get by not previewing.
The harm is the goal.
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