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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel has extensively covered the Trump administration's push to dismantle the Bureau of Land Management headquarters and move a small subset of senior officials to Grand Junction, Colorado. The paper's editorial board has been a cheerleader for the move, repeatedly publishing columns dismissing criticism and welcoming the agency to town.
Now, the Daily Sentinel editorial board has a strong message for the Trump administration about the anti-public lands extremist it has nominated to lead the agency: "Pendley doesn't get it—and can't head up BLM." The paper notes Pendley's extreme beliefs, from arguing the U.S. should sell off all public lands to writing that the Black Lives Matter movement is "based on a lie."
"Pendley has been the face of a fringe movement against federal ownership of public lands, only to be nominated as one of the country’s chief custodians of public lands. He’s the last person who should be criticizing other movements given the incredible pass he’s received thus far over what many consider disqualifying positions on public lands policy," concluded the blistering editorial.
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We fear that the “meeting” [with Secretary Bernhardt] was little more than political cover for further erasure of our indigenous voices — and in our own homeland.”
