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BLM rule calls conservation central to public lands management | Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc.

The Bureau of Land Management’s final public lands rule defends the agency’s authority to consider “conservation” in its management of 245 million acres across the country, even as it tries to allay concerns of energy companies and ranchers who complained that the agency’s proposal would limit their activities. 

New Public Lands Actions Turn the Page on Decades of Conflict and Mismanagement

State Policy Leadership To Conserve Nature

Oil and gas industry opposes federal conservation proposal, New Mexico voices support

If approved, conservation leasing would allow tracts of the land to be leased for conservation separate from oil and gas or agricultural uses.

Comments due on controversial proposed BLM rule: July 5