[dfwgator]

What does Black Lives Matter have to do with this?

[rktman]

It ain’t like public comments mean 💩 to them so why show up?

[chajin]

My first thought was what Black Lives Matter had to do with this, but my brain is on straight now

[dragonblustar]

Climate Nazis strike again.

[Mlheureux]

The constitution says that the fed govt cannot own land not used for gov buildings or military bases, so why do they?

[griswold3]

Those Bastards!

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

“The agency guidelines, which were created without a congressional vote, would implement a radical departure from the “multiple use mandate” outlined by Congress in the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA)”

Acts of Congress are nullified and amended by rules of Bureaucracies.
Does that sound like consent of the governed?

[PIF]

Why do they need to show up? This is just a cost cutting measure. If they did show up, they just toss all the “concerns” in the round file anyway.

[alancarp]

"Republicans on Capitol Hill demanded the agency not only extend the public comment period, but also hold meetings closer to those whom the new rules would directly hit..."

Republicans on the Hill would do a lot better to reign in this unchecked, unconstitutional run on these lands.

[vikingd00d]

>>Gordon, nearly half of whose state is owned by the federal government, called the framework on conservation leases “boneheaded.”

That's the main problem right there. The federal government should not own ANY land other than for "forts and needful buildings", let alone "half a state".

[Pajamajan]

"The new rules appear to come straight from the college playbook of BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning, whose 2021 confirmation was controversial thanks to her history as an ecoterrorist. Stone-Manning’s 1992 graduate thesis condemned grazing on public lands and promoted a Chinese-style child cap."

The last paragraph of the article is eye opening.

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The headline writer really should know by now.

The internet isn’t like a newspaper where you have to save space and squeeze things in.

[kaktuskid]

The BLM needs to be disbanded and the lands turned back to the states.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

The federal agencies are literally running the country.

[sauropod]

Ping to those that may still be interested in this sort of thing.

[Organic Panic]

Let me guess. Government grants to “charities” to pay for “conservation leases”

[CedarDave]

See also:

Contentious committee hearing on BLM proposed rule, support of HR 3397 and

New BLM Rules On ‘Conservation Leases’ Will Fundamentally Transform Public Land Management

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[Wuli]

Cut the national debt. Sell all federal lands not now in specific use for military lands, other federal structures, existing minerals, mining and lumber leases, or national parks. Give away only now existing “conservation” sites to the states, for them to keep as is under their authority and care, or otherwise do with as they wish.

[13foxtrot]

Progressives are doing everything they can to eliminate rural commercial viability.

They want to force everyone to move into high-density housing in the cities while turning the rural wild areas into playgrounds for the rich.

Also, eliminating grazing lands (e.g., open range leases) will remove natural beef from the diet of dirty commoners and make it luxury item for the elite. The poors can eat vat grown meat or plant based protein.