Imagine the worst landlord you ever had. Then, make it worse. The landlord sells off the wood floor in your dining room, turns a herd of cattle loose on your front lawn and digs up your back yard looking for oil. Now, say hello to Trump’s Bureau of Land Management.

The BLM is America’s biggest landlord, responsible for over 245 million acres of our public lands. That’s more than 10% of the total land in the United States, which means that the management policies of BLM have enormous impacts, especially in the West where it is by far the largest landowner.

The agency’s website proclaims: “The Bureau of Land Management’s mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.” BLM’s record at living up to that mission is at best debatable, given the agency’s long accommodation of ranching, timber and fossil fuel interests. What’s not debatable is that under this administration the BLM intends to go hog-wild on resource extraction……

You can read the rest of the article in Writers on the Range:  https://writersontherange.org/the-bureau-of-land-management-is-running-amok