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To steward America's public lands for future generations, the Biden administration needs to finalize strong, durable conservation regulations, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress.
The report, which analyzes the importance of conservation for the benefit of wildlife habitat, outdoor recreation, economic health, and cultural preservation, highlights the opportunity for the Biden administration to provide necessary conservation for unprotected public lands by bolstering and implementing the Public Lands Rule—a Bureau of Land Management proposal to put conservation on equal footing with other uses on public lands, including drilling, grazing, and mining.
This morning, the House Natural Resources Committee is holding a hearing on a bill that would preemptively block the proposed rule.
"The pearl-clutching opposition to a draft proposal is perplexing," Center for Western Priorities Deputy Director Aaron Weiss said in a statement leading up to the hearing. "The entire point of a public comment period is to refine a new rule so that it can best achieve its goals. Instead of holding bombastic hearings to decry a work-in-progress, members of Congress should sit down with the authors of the proposed rule, understand how and why it’s written the way it is, and provide constructive feedback to help make it even better."
BLM Restoration Landscapes: Southeast Oregon Sagebrush
In celebration of the Bureau of Land Management’s $161 million investment in Western landscape restoration projects, Look West is highlighting a different "Restoration Landscape" each day for 21 days. Today’s landscape is the Southeast Oregon Sagebrush. An investment of $5 million will go toward planting sagebrush, treating invasive vegetation, promoting growth of native vegetation, and creating fuel breaks in uplands, resultantly restoring habitat for hundreds of species, including the greater sage-grouse.
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It’s not just an Apache fight. It’s become so much bigger. It’s become a fight for humanity, a fight for ethics, about the freedom of religion. It’s about the fundamental morals of this country.”
