The Trump Administration has rescinded the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule, removing conservation as a formal public lands “use” and shifting federal land policy toward energy development, mining, grazing, and other extractive priorities amid criticism from environmental and conservation organizations.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/05/interior-department-rescinds-public-lands-rule-treating-conservation-as-a-use.html

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Interior Department Rescinds Public Lands Rule Treating Conservation as a “Use”

The Trump Administration has rescinded the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule, removing conservation as a formal public lands “use” and shifting federal land policy toward energy development, mining, grazing, and other extractive priorities amid criticism from environmental and conservation organizations.

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