Leaked federal roadmap for public land called ‘industry wish list’

Jonathan Ratner

From the good folks at WyoFile

by Angus M. Thuermer Jr.

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Karen Budd-Falen. (Tennessee Watson/DOI/Budd-Falen Law Offices)

As the Department of the Interior develops a plan to “restore American prosperity” by exploiting Western natural resources, a Wyoming attorney who has steeled rural communities against federal policies is atop the hierarchy that will marshal the effort.

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum last month appointed Karen Budd-Falen as temporary deputy secretary and his senior advisor. As the department fleshes out a four-year strategic plan to use natural resources across 19.9 million acres of national parks and Bureau of Land Management property in Wyoming, Budd-Falen will be in the Interior’s second-highest position.

A draft of the four-year Interior plan leaked to Public Domain outlines department objectives for prosperity, security and recreation. Conservationists have decried elements they say would dismantle environmental safeguards, turn over federal property, promote energy development and favor rural communities over nationwide interests.

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  1. ChicoRey Avatar
    ChicoRey

    Got this from Cloud Foundation this am. Considering the mortality rate of Wild Horses and Burros during and AFTER roundups – now appears that the BLM feels its ok to shoot them in the HMAs. Doing this in the Pryors one of the oldest HMAs without contacting the Cloud Fnd. beforehand doesnt seem quite kosher!

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    1. Ida Lupine Avatar
      Ida Lupine

      Oh how awful. These people are simply vile.

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  2. Bruce Bowen Avatar
    Bruce Bowen

    I am curious as to whether or not the Trump administration will attempt to use the Recreation and Public Purposes Act (43USC) to accomplish their agenda or are they bypassing it because this law has a number of checks and balances.

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  3. Jeff Hoffman Avatar
    Jeff Hoffman

    This is literally what fascism is: corporations running the government. The U.S. has been like this for a long time, Trump just takes it to a new level and makes it more obvious.

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Jonathan Ratner
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Jonathan Ratner has been in the trenches of public lands conservation for nearly 25 years. He started out doing forest carnivore work for the Forest Service, BLM, and the Inter-agency Grizzly Bear Study Team, with some Wilderness Rangering on the Pinedale Ranger District. That work lead him directly to deal with the gross corruption within the federal agencies' range program.

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