FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2018 file photo, emigrant Peak is seen rising above the Paradise Valley and the Yellowstone River near Emigrant, Mont. The Trump administration has put a conservative advocate who argues for selling off the nation’s public lands in charge of the nation’s 250 million public acres.
WASHINGTON — A conservative lawyer and writer who argues for selling off the nation’s public lands is now in charge of a nearly quarter-billion acres in federally held rangeland and other wilderness. Pendley, a former midlevel Interior appointee in the Reagan administration, for decades has championed ranchers and others in standoffs with the federal government over grazing and other uses of public lands. He has written books accusing federal authorities and environmental advocates of “tyranny” and “waging war on the West.” He argued in a 2016 National Review article that the “Founding Fathers intended all lands owned by the federal government to be sold.
The Interior Department appointed Pendley as the policy director at BLM, which manages one out of every 10 acres in the United States and 30% of the nation’s minerals, in mid-July. It confirmed his appointment as acting head on Monday night.
That explains this absurd contention that wild horses & burros are an 'existential threat.' He's a mouthpiece of corrupt&ravenous industry eating everything in its path w/o regard for consequences,rights of wildlife to exist in peace or the urgency to keep wild lands untouched.
Describing him as conservative is inaccurate. He does not embody true conservative values. He wants to destroy America.
When the government owns the land, like the monarchy, the people have less power.
Another fourth string appointee who follows Trump’s agenda and is willing to sell land to fulfill Trump’s budget. Not enough to manage Kushner’s land in Baltimore!
I guess the republican party has changed. Teddy Roosevelt was the one who started conservation in the US
I don’t think it’s possible for the Trump admin to get any more corrupt or swampy. TrumpLies GOPCorruption GOPFailedAmerica DumpTheGOP2020 DumpTrump2020
And by 'public' you mean Native.
The End is near.
_tricia_jones awesome 🙄
'Wonders of the World' is a phrase that is totally lost on a Trumpian. Me,Me, Me, & Money is all they see.
How much land do the feds need?
Who else could these monsters have chosen?
we are fucked
_Ben_Franklin1 This is what Republicanism is. A devolution. Actively making everything they touch worse.
Crazier by the day
My only issue is wasn't they part of the 9/11 Attack? But I guess Big Business is still Running America Morals..Ijs
follow the money...😠
America Inc
Up against the wall motherfucker
he we go with he is going to do this or do that remember Hillary was going to win trump was going to fire muller and again none happened stop trying to build divide Obama gave our uranium and billion to countries who want to destroy us and no one cared or cares
Will the land then go back to homesteaders? Or highest bidder?
Let's GET THIS ADMINISTRATION OUT!!! They are either trolls,criminals or unqualified for their jobs.
He should sell me some.
trump has been hiring the only best people according to him, what a_hole we have.
Ohhhhh crap!
GOOD. The United States Government has no need to be holding that much real estate. It belongs to the People, and should be sold back to them. Too bad that shoots Agenda21/Agenda2030 right in the ass. LOL!! SuckIt ZOG NWO!
Geez.
Drumpf's wholesale liquidation of America's infrastructure and natural treasures to the highest (frequently foreign) bidders continues at a steady pace. It won't be long before it'll be some Chinese corporation collecting the entrance fees to Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.
Were so f*cked
Well that’s not good
In tweets this summer, Pendley...has called the oil and gas extraction technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, “an energy, economic, AND environmental miracle!” 🛢️🤑💰🛢️
I just glad I got to see America before it's end.
Two sides to this. While it may be problematic to sell public land. Nobody takes care of the land better when its individually owned. One person to be held accountable.
NO!!!
But we need that land to pay off debts when Congressleaders declare bankruptcy.
What the fuck