The Biden Administration’s BLM Conservation and Landscape Health Rule sought to elevate conservation and restoration as recognized uses of public lands. The Trump Administration, under Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, is now proposing to rescind that rule, arguing that it is restoring balance in federal land management by prioritizing multiple-use access, empowering local decision-making, and supporting responsible energy development, ranching, grazing, timber production, and recreation across America’s public lands. 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, placing it on equal footing with grazing, energy development, and recreation. Critics argue that the rule created regulatory uncertainty, reduced access to land, and undermined the long-standing multiple-use mandate established by Congress. Proponents saw it as a long-overdue recognition that conservation and restoration should be core management priorities. At a time when public lands policy is once again in the national spotlight, this webinar featured leading voices who share a belief in market-based conservation—but hold diverse views on whether the rule should be rescinded, retained, or revised.
Featured Speakers • Moderator: Brent Fewell, ConservAmerica • Jonathan Wood, Vice President of Law and Policy, PERC • Rob Sisson, Senior Fellow, ConservAmerica • Myron Ebell, Public Lands Council
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