Trump Administration Kills Rule Putting Conservation of Public Lands on Equal Footing With Resource Extraction

Biden’s Public Lands Rule ensured protecting or rehabilitating federal land would be as legitimate a use as mining, logging or drilling. Republicans and developers said it was a threat to the principle of “multiple use.”By Wyatt Myskow The Trump Administration on Tuesday finalized its repeal of the Bureau of Land Management’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, better known as the Public Lands Rule, which gave conservation activities on federal land equal priority with extractive uses like mining and logging. It’s the latest in what is now a long series of decisions from the Trump administration to prioritize industry use of the nation’s public lands.