Two ex-Bureau of Land Management chiefs under former Presidents Clinton and Obama say the agency’s relocation to Colorado is an early step toward abolishing the agency and transferring federal land to the states, Bobby Magill writes.
- Some politicians in the West have long opposed federal management of public land. Utah passed a law in 2012 demanding, thus far unsuccessfully, that Congress transfer more than 30 million acres of federal land to the state.
- The BLM this month hired a champion of the land transfer movement as its deputy director of policy and programs—William Perry Pendley, former president of ...