Stays were granted Monday in North Dakota’s and Utah’s separate challenges to a Biden administration public lands conservation rule.
North Dakota, Idaho, and Montana last June sued the Interior Department in the US District Court for the District of North Dakota to challenge the Bureau of Land Management’s Landscape and Conservation Health regulation, or Public Lands Rule, which defines conservation as a “use” of federal land across the West.
President Donald Trump’s administration on Jan. 31 filed a motion for a 60-day stay in the litigation to allow its new personnel to familiarize themselves with the rule. US District ...