{"id":29736,"date":"2024-04-18T17:47:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/biden-administration-announces-rule-to-strengthen-protection-of-public-lands\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T17:47:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:47:43","slug":"biden-administration-announces-rule-to-strengthen-protection-of-public-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/biden-administration-announces-rule-to-strengthen-protection-of-public-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Announces Rule to Strengthen Protection of Public Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/04\/18\/multimedia\/18cli-public-lands-tkgp\/18cli-public-lands-tkgp-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Biden Administration Announces Rule to Strengthen Protection of Public Lands\" title=\"Biden Administration Announces Rule to Strengthen Protection of Public Lands\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Biden administration on Thursday announced a new federal rule for the nation\u2019s sprawling public lands that puts conservation on par with activities like grazing, energy development and mining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The new rule relates to areas overseen by the Bureau of Land Management, some 245 million acres that make up a 10th of the country\u2019s land, mainly in the West. It elevates conservation in a number of ways, including by creating two new kinds of leases for the restoration of degraded lands and for offsetting environmental damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">These lands have long been managed for \u201cmultiple uses,\u201d including cattle ranching, drilling and recreation. But some of those activities, combined with new pressures from wildfires and drought, both fueled by climate change, have taken a toll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAs stewards of America\u2019s public lands, the Interior Department takes seriously our role in helping bolster landscape resilience in the face of worsening climate impacts,\u201d Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement. \u201cToday\u2019s final rule helps restore balance to our public lands as we continue using the best-available science to restore habitats, guide strategic and responsible development, and sustain our public lands for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last year, congressional Republicans and other opponents reacted with outrage to an earlier version of the lease idea, accusing the Biden administration of a land-grab and of putting national security in jeopardy by allowing foreign entities to tie up land that could have critical economic and geopolitical uses like mineral extraction. The final rule clarifies that leases will be issued only to qualified groups, will not be issued to foreigners and will not be issued when incompatible with existing uses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The move is the latest in a flurry of environmental announcements and decisions from the Biden Administration, including <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/16\/climate\/ambler-road-alaska-interior.html\" title=\"\">denying permission for a road through Alaskan wilderness<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/28\/climate\/endangered-species-rules-regulations.html\" title=\"\">restoring endangered species protections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Conservation groups praised the latest announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s very exciting,\u201d said Aaron Weiss, deputy director at the Center for Western Priorities, a conservation advocacy group. He noted the rule\u2019s importance in laying out a path to navigate increasing demands on public lands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cFiguring out how to balance all that while public lands are under pressure from climate change is the biggest challenge, I\u2019d say, in the entire West today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jamie Williams, president of The Wilderness Society, said the rule \u201camounts to a generation-defining shift in how we manage our shared natural resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Of more than 200,000 public comments submitted on the proposed version of the rul, the overwhelming majority were supportive, according to an analysis by the Center for Western Priorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Protecting environmental health has always been part of the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s mandate. But conservation has been largely sidelined in decision-making over how land is used, experts say. This new rule is intended to change that. It notes that if ecosystems collapse, they cannot deliver \u201cclean air and water, food and fiber, wildlife habitat, natural carbon storage, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Under its provisions, the Bureau of Land Management will measure land health everywhere, instead of only focusing on grazing land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During fiscal year 2022, the various activities on its lands generated $262.7 billion in economic output across the country, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/18\/climate\/blm-public-lands-conservation.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration on Thursday announced a new federal rule for the nation\u2019s sprawling public lands that puts conservation on par with activities like grazing, energy development and mining. The new rule relates to areas overseen by the Bureau of Land Management, some 245 million acres that make up a 10th of the country\u2019s land, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/04\/18\/multimedia\/18cli-public-lands-tkgp\/18cli-public-lands-tkgp-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9150,1314,45,719,7829,3560,3980,30286],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29738,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29736\/revisions\/29738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}