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What Could Be Lost After Trump Rescinds Rule Protecting Public Lands

Lithium mining, mass logging mark new US public land management policy in Oregon after a key conservation rule was repealed.

Just over two years ago, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) adopted a policy designed to ensure that, after decades of uneven attention to conservation, the Bureau would center conservation and ecological concerns in its management of public lands.  The Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, also known as the Public Lands Rule, explicitly stated that […]

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