{"id":1930029,"date":"2023-05-13T02:15:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T06:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-tour-promoting-new-rule-bureau-of-land-management-ignores-gop-mountain-states-it-would-hurt-most\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T02:15:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T06:15:24","slug":"in-tour-promoting-new-rule-bureau-of-land-management-ignores-gop-mountain-states-it-would-hurt-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-tour-promoting-new-rule-bureau-of-land-management-ignores-gop-mountain-states-it-would-hurt-most\/","title":{"rendered":"In Tour Promoting New Rule, Bureau Of Land Management Ignores GOP Mountain States It Would Hurt Most"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fin-tour-promoting-new-rule-bureau-of-land-management-ignores-gop-mountain-states-it-would-hurt-most%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1930029&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> \t\t\t\t\t The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) doesn\u2019t seem very interested in hearing from constituents who live near public land. <\/p>\n<p>    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\u2019 access to public lands.<\/p>\n<p>    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.<\/p>\n<p>    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\u2019s Interior secretary, Deb Haaland, moved offices of the bureau\u2019s senior leadership back to Washington D.C. last summer.<\/p>\n<p>    [READ: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Reels Her Bureaucracy Back Into The Swamp]\n<p>    Even though the BLM still maintains the Grand Junction office as an outpost, located on Colorado\u2019s Western Slope, the agency meetings about its proposed public lands rule will be held in the suburbs of Denver. The state capital is much further from neighboring Utah. In fact, each of the three meetings will be held in urban areas, far away from the ranchers most likely to be impacted. <\/p>\n<p>    In Nevada, BLM officials will hold their meeting at a convention center in Reno on the westernmost edge of the state, instead of Las Vegas on the southern tip next to Arizona and Utah. In New Mexico, leaders will meet in Albuquerque. <\/p>\n<p>    The five states omitted from the lineup collectively possess more than 150 million acres of federal land, compared to the 105 million acres located in Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado. <\/p>\n<p>    Idaho\u2019s four-member congressional delegation sent a letter to BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning on Thursday demanding the agency recalculate its schedule. <\/p>\n<p>    \u201cAs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) considers a major shift in the longstanding and well understood multiple-use approach of federal land management, we are discouraged to see Idaho was not listed as one of the sites for in-person public meetings,\u201d they wrote. \u201cFurther, we were disappointed to see not only was Idaho not included, but the in-person locations are geographically concentrated away from many of BLM\u2019s constituents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    The closest meeting for Idaho residents, lawmakers noted, \u201cis Reno, Nevada, a trip that can take anywhere between five and fourteen hours by car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    The BLM director was among President Biden\u2019s most controversial nominees in 2021 and was confirmed in a partisan vote. <\/p>\n<p>    While most objections to her nomination focused on her past connections to ecoterrorism, Stone-Manning\u2019s 1992 graduate thesis promoted ads critical of grazing on public lands. <\/p>\n<p>    \u201cIt is overgrazed. Most likely, the grasses won\u2019t grow back, because the topsoil took flight,\u201d Stone-Manning wrote. \u201cWorse still, the government encourages this destruction. It charges ranchers under $2 a month to graze each cow and its calf on public land \u2014 your land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    Stone-Manning now heads the nation\u2019s preeminent land agency overseeing 155 million acres of grazing land for livestock, about the size of Arizona and New Mexico. New rules proposed under her leadership to ban grazing are now coming straight from her 1992 playbook. <\/p>\n<p>    [READ: Biden Land Management Nominee Is An Ecoterrorist Who Demanded Chinese-Style Child Cap]\n<p>  \t\t\t\t\t      Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter here.  \t\t\t\t\t       ArizonaBLMBureau of Land ManagementColoradoIdahoMontanaMountain WestNevadaNew Mexicopublic landsTracy Stone-ManningUtahWestern statesWyoming     \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) doesn\u2019t 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. 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