WASHINGTON
,
June 16, 2023
(press release)
–
Source:
United States House of Representatives
– Representative
Matt Rosendale
(
Montana
)
Rosendale Blasts Bureau of Land Management Leader on Proposed Conservation and Landscape Health Rule
Washington
,
June 16, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C
. – Yesterday, Congressman
Matt Rosendale
(MT-02) grilled Principal Deputy Director of the
Bureau of Land Management
(BLM),
Nada Culver
, on the disastrous Conservation and Landscape Health Rule that aims to lock away wide swaths of grazing land for conservation leases in a
House Committee on Natural Resources
hearing.
“This proposed Conservation and Landscape Health Rule completely contradicts existing law and is an insult to those who rely on grazing lands for their livelihoods,” said
Rep. Rosendale
. “The Supreme Court recently ruled in West Virginia v. EPA that this is a cut and dry example of agency overreach, and now the BLM has heard it from
Congress
as well.
Congress
makes the laws, not the Administration. The BLM needs to stay in its lane and stop this unconstitutional law that’s being forced upon the people of
Montana
without their input.”
Key Background:
- The BLM’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, proposed in April, will establish conservation leases that will lock away large areas of land that could be used for outdoor recreation, grazing, timber, and energy development.
- This rule is in direct violation of the Taylor Grazing Act and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, which requires a “multiple use” policy on public lands.
- Changing the BLM’s multiple use mandate without the proper input from
Congress
or state and county governments is an unprecedented power grab. It will empower the Bureau to approve acreage limitations that could limit critical vegetation management and harm the people of
Montana
.
- The Bureau only provided a 75-day comment period for this rule and held listening sessions only in the major metropolitan areas of
Denver
, Reno, and Albuquerque, far removed from the stakeholders who will feel the results of this disastrous rule. The lack of interest in getting feedback from the public shows that the Bureau is not serious about addressing their concerns.
- On
April 28th
,
Congressman Rosendale
sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior
Deb Haaland
and
Bureau of Land Management
Director
Tracy Stone-Manning
objecting to the proposed Conservation and Landscape Health Rule and laying out how the rule will negatively impact the people of
Montana
. Read the full letter here.
Watch Congressman Rosendale’s remarks in committee here.
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