On May 11, the Department of the Interior finalized the repeal of the Bureau of Land Management’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, better known as the Public Lands Rule.
In 2023, when the Biden administration’s BLM first proposed the rule, my colleague at Independent Women, Gabriella Hoffman, and I argued in the Wall Street Journal that it exceeded BLM’s authority and would undermine the effective management of 245 million acres of public land. The Biden administration finalized it despite bipartisan objections from Western states, including Alaska.
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