Action Alert: Defend the Public Lands Rule
America’s public lands belong to everyone and provide countless opportunities for recreation, conservation, and sustainable use. The Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule helps ensure our ability to connect with nature remains for generations to come, but, right now, this critical rule is under threat.
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Why the Public Lands Rule Matters
The Public Lands Rule guides the Bureau of Land Management to consider conservation, recreation, cultural resource protection, and sustainable use alongside development by providing long overdue guidance for the agency to make smart, science-based decisions about where and how different uses are permitted on the 245 million acres it stewards.
Despite receiving overwhelming public support (92% of all public comments submitted were in favor of its implementation), the Trump administration has announced its intent to rescind the Public Lands Rule. If that happens, the agency will lose essential tools to restore degraded lands, safeguard intact ecosystems, and respond to the growing pressures of drought, wildfire, and climate change–not to mention opening the door for industry to further exploit public lands and waters.
Washington State has more than 400,000 acres of BLM lands including natural and recreational assets like the Juniper Dunes Wilderness, the Chopaka Mountain Wilderness Study Area, San Juan Islands National Monument, and Wild and Scenic eligible segments of the Yakima and Similkameen Rivers as well as some of the last best remaining habitat for the imperiled sage grouse.
Tell the Bureau of Land Management you support keeping the Public Lands Rule in place. Add your voice today to support smart, balanced, and lasting stewardship by signing our petition.
