The Interior Department is moving to eliminate land-use restrictions imposed on all federal land by the Biden administration. The proposal involves every acre of federally owned land, which amounts to approximately one-tenth of the country.
In a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) release issued on Wednesday about the change, Interior Sec. Doug Burgum said former President Joe Biden and his administration used the “2024 Public Lands Rule” as a way to prevent “energy and mineral production, timber management, grazing and recreation across the West.”
The Trump administration accused Biden of using the rule, which took effect in May 2024, to effectively prevent anything from happening on federal land. “The previous administration had treated conservation as “no use,” meaning the land was to be left idle rather than authorizing legitimate uses of the land like grazing, energy development or recreation.”
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