Westerners Welcome BLM Plan to Improve Public-Lands Management

By Justin Stakes

BLM’s proposed Planning 2.0 set for public meeting Friday in Denver

Denver, CO -(AmmoLand.com)- The Bureau of Land Management’s proposed planning rule, if applied effectively, would make public lands management planning more transparent and more responsive to public input and changing conditions on the landscape.

The proposed changes are designed to increase the accountability and opportunities for public participation that many critics of public-lands management say they want.

The Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development coalition said Thursday the BLM’s Planning 2.0 initiative is the next step in the agency’s efforts to improve management of public lands, which are crucial to fish and wildlife, hunting, fishing recreation and state and local businesses and industries.

Rather than demand the takeover of public lands, those interested in realistic solutions to the challenges of managing public lands should encourage the BLM to follow through on the proposed changes, coalition members said.

The proposed planning rule, set for a public hearing Friday in Denver, would bolster BLM’s efforts to take a more comprehensive, science- based approach to planning across landscapes and better balance land uses. The BLM planning rule …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand