Trump To Scrap Biden-Era Rule That Elevated Conservation On Public Lands
The move comes days after Trump’s Interior Secretary stressed the importance of balancing development and protection.
At an all-hands meeting of Interior Department employees last week, Secretary Doug Burgum stressed that managing and protecting federal public lands “must be held in balance.”
“It says in the mission statement the job of Interior is to ‘manage and protect,’” he said. “It doesn’t just say ‘protect,’ it says ‘manage a…
