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BLM finalizes rule to allow conservation leases

04/18/24 3:34 PM By Steve Davies
KEYWORDS BLM BLM grazing conservation leasing Dan Newhouse Deb Haaland Federal Land Policy and Management Act FLPMA grazing John Barrasso public lands public lands conservation renewable energy The Wilderness Society

The Bureau of Land Management has finalized a rule that will allow conservation leases on its land by giving land protection and restoration equal footing with grazing, energy development and other long-standing uses of the 245 million acres the agency controls.


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