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Interior's Public Lands Rule: Gaslighting us to take away tools for conservation

The Trump administration’s proposal to rescind the Public Lands Rule will harm our public lands, hamper conservation, and leave people less well-off. And they're doing it by gaslighting people into believing the word “use” means something different than it really does.

Jacob Malcom

• 9 min read
A desert grassland under partly cloudy skies.
Landscapes like this one in Arizona where BLM lands - our public lands - are common require using the lands in many ways, from ranching to recreation to conservation. Photo CC-BY-SA JMalcom