BLM Land Managment Rule Has Dire Implications for Cattle Producers

The Bureau of Land Management has implemented a new public lands rule that they say will provide for balanced management of America's land now and in the future. Kaitlynn Glover, executive director of the Public Lands Council, on the new rule and its potential implications.

“Spring of 2023 we saw the BLM, sort of AirDrop, a proposed rule on all of the regulated communities, including grazing permittees across the West, that would affect all 245 million acres, the circus acres that they manage. And what this proposed rule suggested was really in three parts. So they created a new use under their managing laws. Under flipma, they created a conservation leasing system. Made it easier for the agency to lock out uses through areas of Critical Environmental Concern designations. But on whole, would have been very challenging for the industry and for land management.”

The Public Lands Council is joining other organizations in opposing this new rule and demanding answers, according to Glover,

“And so we are challenging the rule in full. We don't believe the agency has acted within its authority in creating a new use, and we believe that the foundation of that rule is unlawful. And so now that we filed this case, we join a couple other cases that have been filed. “

Kaitlynn Glover with the Public Lands Council.