Trump administration moves to rescind Public Lands Rule

Just over a year after the Biden administration signed off on a Public Lands Rule that would significantly increase the federal government’s ability to conserve public lands, the Trump administration announced plans to terminate that rule within the Bureau of Land Management. The termination of that rule has entered a public comment period.

“The 2024 Public Lands Rule, formally known as the Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, made conservation (i.e., no use) an official use of public lands, putting it on the same level as BLM’s other uses of public lands,” the Interior Department announced in a news release in September. “The previous administration had treated conservation as ‘no use,’ meaning the land was to be left idle rather than authorizing legitimate uses of the land like grazing, energy development or recreation.

“However, stakeholders, including the energy industry, recreational users and agricultural producers, across the country expressed deep concern that the rule created regulatory uncertainty, reduced access to lands, and undermined the long-standing multiple-use mandate of the BLM as established by Congress. Now, the BLM proposes to rescind this rule in full.”

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