John,
Former Rep. Steve Pearce of New Mexico spent his congressional career attacking public lands and endangered species. Now President Donald Trump has picked him to lead the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, where Pearce would be in charge of 245 million acres of public lands — all at extreme risk of privatization and annihilation.
Pearce has long called for shrinking and selling off public lands to private and corporate interests. If he’s confirmed, he’ll greenlight extractive industry at the expense of clean water, wildlife, and public enjoyment across some of the most cherished landscapes in the U.S. West.
We can’t let him oversee this agency.
In 2017, Pearce was an outspoken proponent of President Trump shrinking and slashing the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, Bears Ears, and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. His persistent calls for the privatization of public lands are alarming, especially for the millions of Americans who mere months ago witnessed — and emphatically opposed — the sell-off attempt in the Congressional budget bill fight.
In his time as the representative for southwestern New Mexico, Pearce demonized endangered Mexican wolves and continuously spouted false information to inflame opposition to these canines, who historically roamed throughout his district. On the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, he went as far as saying this: “The most provocative sound to a wolf is a crying baby or a laughing baby. It’s a matter of time until these wolves — which will stalk for weeks and weeks and weeks at a time around local homes — it’s a matter of time until a wolf catches one of these children.”
If Pearce leads the management of federal lands, he’ll let his billionaire buddies ransack these cherished, publicly held places and destroy natural heritage forever. You can join the fight to stop him.
Urge your senators to oppose Steve Pearce as director of the Bureau of Land Management. |
