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A seismic shift in federal land management is underway due to Congress using an obscure law in ways it was never intended, writes CWP's Kate Groetzinger in a new piece for the Gunnison Country Times.
Groetzinger, who co-hosts The Landscape podcast, explains how members of Congress and the Trump administration are using the Congressional Review Act to repeal land management plans and protections that balance conservation with extractive uses on national public lands—overturning a stable, community-driven planning system for public lands in the process.
Historically, the CRA has been used sparingly—only about 20 times in nearly 30 years. But starting last June, members of Congress started weaponizing the CRA against land management plans and protections that were not previously treated as “rules,” including mineral withdrawals, resource management plans for BLM field offices, and management plans for national monuments.
The next targets for this unprecedented use of the CRA are Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah and the Boundary Waters in Minnesota. Read more in the Gunnison Country Times.
Next stop on Trump's war on signs: Death Valley
The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe says the Trump administration is attempting to remove language from a Tribal exhibit at Death Valley National Park. Mandi Campbell, the Tribe's historic preservation officer, told the Nevada Current, “One of the displays says ‘we are still here’ and they highlighted that they do not want that there.” The Interior department also flagged the words "This is our Homeland" for removal.
The Park Service planned to add a medallion and earrings to the Timbisha exhibit to mark the 25th anniversary of the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act, which established co-management of the park. The updated display would have included the phrase "Timbisha Homelands," which was also rejected by Interior.
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