This so-called “public lands rule” includes a significant, if long overdue, recognition that the agency’s “multiple use” mission includes a conservation mandate.
Existing gas and oil development near the Roan Plateau can be seen from an EcoFlight plane on June 25, 2018 near De Beque.On April 18, the Bureau of Land Management , the federal government’s largest land manager, promulgated a rule explaining how the agency will carry out its longstanding statutory obligation to conserve the 245 million acres of lands it regulates.” includes a significant, if long overdue, recognition that the agency’s “multiple use” mission includes a conservation mandate.
The new public lands rule addresses both oversights, clarifying that conservation is a multiple use that includes maintaining resilient, functioning ecosystems by protecting or restoring natural habitats and ecological functions. To help foster ecosystem resilience the rule authorizes “restoration or mitigation” leases to protect, manage, or restore natural environments, ecological communities, or cultural and historic resources.
The rule is well within BLM’s statutory authority to manage public lands for multiple use and sustained use and the statutory directive to avoid “permanent impairment,” while providing the long-term needs of future generations. Achieving sustained yield requires the agency to achieve multigeneration management “in perpetuity.”
The Public Lands Rule provides an important response to the threats imposed by climate change, which the Interior Department has acknowledged widely affects the lands, waters, and natural and culture resources it manages, resulting in landscape degradation, habitat fragmentation, and biodiversity loss.
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