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The Bureau of Land Management was formed out of the General Land Office, which sold and distributed public land to settlers, and the Grazing Service, which settled the range wars on the side of the farmers. Its mission under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) is “the management of the public lands and their various resource values so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the present and future needs of the American people”.
Unfortunately BLM became a bastion of environmentalists opposed to any kind of development and, under Biden, even outright eco-terrorists, like Tracy Stone-Manning, his BLM director.
Tracy Stone-Manning had been the spokeswoman for the eco-terrorist group EarthFirst and had sent a threatening letter to the Forest Service warning that the terrorists had rigged a forest with traps and concluding with, “You bastards go in there anyway and a lot of people could get hurt.”
Instead of going to jail, Biden nominated the eco-terrorist to head BLM and Senate Democrats, including Senator Manchin, voted to confirm her into office. Instead of managing national resources for the benefit of the American people, Biden’s BLM has waged a corrupt and dishonest campaign to seize total control of them and prevent them from being utilized.
After Biden and BLM were forced by the court to offer oil and gas leases, they did it with a poison pill by offering poor and played out sites, hiking royalties, and reducing available areas, before pulling the auction due to “lack of interest”. While BLM was sabotaging oil and gas drilling, American workers were being economically devastated by sky-high gas prices.
BLM is now trying for something much more ambitious. The federal agency, which is not a legislative body, is proposing to dramatically modify the Federal Register to redefine conservation, or non-use of the land, as a “primary purpose” and then offer “conservation leases” to leftists to lock up the land and prevent if from being used for grazing or drilling.
The Bureau of Land Management’s leadership is proposing to unilaterally transform its functioning from managing exploitable resources on behalf of the public to banning exploitation of those resources while potentially turning over as much as 10% of the nation’s land to leftists.
BLM’s “conservation leases” would allow environmentalist groups and others to seize public lands and potentially place them off limits under the guise of “restoring public lands”. These conservation leases would be offered to “individuals, businesses, non-governmental organizations”. Most of them would go to leftist non-governmental organizations or NGOs.
With “conservation leases” running for as long as a decade, Biden’s BLM would be able to lock up key development sites to prevent future Republican administrations from opening them up to drilling and mining. And Biden would be able to claim plausible deniability for restricting drilling and mining by claiming that the lands are currently undergoing “restoration” or “mitigation”.
BLM controls 1 in 10 acres, 30% of the country’s minerals, and much of its oil and gas. The new “conservation leases” could be used to cripple America’s energy independence for a decade while keeping energy prices high. Furthermore, Communist China, which already has ties to environmentalist groups in this country, could use them as trojan horses to cripple mining, especially of rare earth metals, to keep us dependent on Beijing for our technology.
The Natural Resources Defense Council, which was quick to cheer the proposed “conservation leases”, has been accused of extensive ties to the People’s Republic of China.
BLM’s package of proposals would ‘Californicate’ land management across the country leading to the same measures that crushed farmers, ranchers, energy extraction and mining, created droughts and forest fires, while abandoning productive land to cartels for illegal drug cultivation in what was once a prosperous state for people outside San Francisco and Los Angeles, and industries other than Hollywood and Big Tech.
A proposed land health assessment would apply California-style “watershed function, ecological processes, water quality, and wildlife habitat” analysis to provide countless reasons to block any land use.
BLM also proposes to redefine conservation from passive to active measures for “maintaining resilient, functioning ecosystems by protecting or restoring natural habitats and ecological functions.” This would provide a steady flow of taxpayer money to leftist organizations and provide an open-ended excuse for locking up lands until some ideal standard had been met.
While conservation leases could run for a decade, “mitigation leases” are open-ended and run
“for a term commensurate with the impact it is mitigating”. If you redefine mitigation, as BLM is proposing to do, then these become endless leases that are renewed every 5 years in perpetuity.
The Biden BLM move would not only increase oil and gas prices while furthering our dependence on foreign oil, it would also raise meat prices and help kill ranching.
American ranchers are dependent on public lands for grazing cattle. After a difficult few years in which ranchers have gone bankrupt and culled herds leading to even higher meat prices, the BLM and its eco-terrorist boss have aggressively gone after anyone who isn’t eating soy.
Former EarthFirst eco-terrorist Tracy Stone-Manning demanded the power to unilaterally change existing grazing permits to compensate for the environmentalist hoax known popularly as ‘global warming’. Under these proposals, BLM would constantly “evaluate” the land for global warming impacts and potentially pull grazing permits if its environmentalist fanatics objected.
This would make it impossible for ranchers to run a business without ever knowing if a BLM eco-bureaucrat might cut off their grazing rights any time that she pleases. And the availability and price of meat in supermarkets would soon reflect that grim reality.
Once the grazing land is defined as not being “resilient” in the face of global warming, BLM would snatch it away and hand it over as a “conservation lease” or a “mitigation lease” to environmentalists determined to end grazing, the ownership of animals and eating meat.
When meat prices rise and supply drops, Biden will blame ranchers and meatpackers for “profiteering” rather than admitting that this was the desired outcome of his own policies.
With over 50 million acres of grazing land at risk, BLM has the ability to crush meat production in the United States, much as it can kill oil, gas and mining in this country. As a pleasing side effect, it will also kill any number of conservative businesses while feeding money to the Left.
Western conservatives have called for abolishing the Bureau of Land Management before while urban conservatives have ignored issues like grazing rights or oil and gas leases because meat seemed to come from a supermarket and gas from a pump. But these seeming abstractions have changed life for most of the country for the worse as part of a larger environmental plot.
Beef prices are expected to increase another 15% this year after a year of increases that raised retail meat prices anywhere from 20% to 60% for consumers. Egg prices have put the basic commodity off the breakfast tables of millions of Americans. And gas prices have been rising again. BLM’s latest proposals are meant to not only keep the pain going even into future Republican administrations, but to change American living habits and expectations permanently by systemically ending access to oil, gas and meat for much of the country.
Turning over as much as 10% of America’s land to the Left will end the middle class standard of living. California is a test case, and unless BLM is abolished, America will become California.
Can it get any worse? It can. The scenario is already written. Will they start “disappearing” and seizing the property of the kulaks — the cattle ranchers of this article — who have been “proven guilty” of sabotage and profiteering?
I keep waiting to wake up from this ongoing bad dream. Yet I know that the only place I will awaken out of it is into is the Next World, and given my pretty good health that’s probably a way off.
Please don’t think that way..
We are in some grim times, but evil always loses. Even when good can’t mount an effective attack, evil destroys itself
Or rather there is a G-d who is not indifferent to the affairs of men
Thank you for the mussar, Daniel. Of course you’re right.
It’s natural to feel despair and I know my articles can sometimes be part of the problem, they dissect what the Left is doing, but don’t necessarily offer hope. Accept my apologies for that.
I admit there are times when I am overwhelmed with ugly truth, and I must refrain from reading you for a time until my fighting spirit returns. It helps to remember what you told Lightbringer, because it is gloriously true. We must keep that true nugget as a talisman against despair, because demotivation is certainly an intended tactic.
How many journalists reply directly to comments in the legacy media?
Not many, that’s for sure.
It should be the default. Who are we writing for if not for readers?
Legacy media is a club that writes for its own members and to achieve their political objectives. It talks at, rather than to.
It’s nice of you to write that.
It’s my understanding that the federal government is authorized land use, but only that is necessary to carry out their constitutional functions. I don’t see where the feds have any authority to govern the unconstitutional “federal land” that they claim. Who made them the boss and by what authority?
We have heard that at the end of the month of May, or before, Biden plans on joining the World Health Organization owned by the Chinese government through the United Nations. That means the Chinese are running our healthcare system as well as taking over Land from the United State. We have been sold out and betrayed.
Evil doesn’t lose overnight; and the damage done can be permanent.
The Soviet Union took 7 decades to break up, and in the interim destroyed millions of lives. (Even still to this day, it’s a totalitarian shithole.)
Lightbringer you may not have that long to wait. Deagel predicted US population to crash to 100 million by 2025.. What might seem preposterous is not an implausible scenario. A financial collapse, the rich and powerful withdraw to their safe havens and bunkers. For the general public no power, no water, no communications, no fuel, no food, lots of guns. The Great Reset as an apocalypse of famine, looting and murder. The powers that be will emerge from their bunkers to subdue any residual resistance and announce that the are going to build back better. You will own nothing and be happy, or you will be dead.
Give me liberty or give me death.
(I won’t be going peacefully.)
Thanks Daniel, very interesting!
I like a Dennis Prager joke:
What do you call someone who goes to church and thinks the world is ending?
A religious zealot.
What do you call an atheist who thinks the world is ending? An environmentalist.
Kinda sums up the problem.
Dear Mr. Greenfield; “instead of gping to jail, Biden nominatef the ecoterrorist to hesd BLM.” Didn’t you mean “Biden mominated the ecoterrorist to head BLM instead of going to jail?: ,Phrases and clauses, at the begiming of a sentence, must refer to the subject of thevsentence, remember?
A bit pedantic, n’est pas? Then again, the grammar does kind of make sense. Had Biden gone to jail long ago for his half-century one-man crime wave, then he’d never have had the opportunity to nominate an ecoterrorist.
One man? The entire Biden family is a crime family, just like the Pelosis and Obamas.
Just over the past week or so, I’ve noticed a lot of sloppy errors in the Towmhall and FrontpageMagazine columns
When I saw “BLM” I thought of the terrorists who burn down cities. Then again, what’s the diff?
I had the same thought.
I also confused the two, yet since they’re so alike . . .
I made the same mistake
Theseradical proposals are way beyond BLM’s statutory purview and must be challenged in court
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/04/03/2023-06310/conservation-and-landscape-health?fbclid=IwAR0I96_ql1t79OejOUWbwp1hI8f9mT3f39SkpdgSkL-ebixNzDdznn3ciRY
Less than 2% of beef raised in the USA graze in public land
Tell us how this will cause beef prices to skyrocket.
I knew it! As soon as we saw who is now in the saddle at the BLM, these kinds of actions were predictable.
As for the price of beef, I hear instead of rounding up stray cattle on BLM land and returning them to a rancher’s land or grazing allotment, they now are shooting them from helicopters.
The federal lands managed by BLM are PUBLIC lands. They belong to us.
California stupidly turned over their state lands to the feds. Now a huge acreage of desert lands are at risk of being covered with solar panels and more skylines are at risk of being filled with wind turbines. Destroy the desert, oh, yes, but we are saving the planet from that pesky ol’ climate change.
A Sunday drive through the high desert of Southern California, accompanied by a reasonably-competent geologist or naturalist will show you the record of the millennia of climate changes this earth has undergone.
(You’ll notice I did not say “environmentalist” or “plant.” Those words now trigger uncomfortable anxieties, I’m such a snowflake.)
Gotta put those millions of illegals somewhere, right?
We can dream….
Please hire a professional proofreader.
The period goes inside the terminal quotation mark.
Quotation marks are doubles: “. Not singles, unless nested: ‘.
And when you nest a quotation inside a quotation, then you use doubles for the nesting quotation, and singles for the nested quotation. “He gave an example: ‘Like this,’ he said.” Otherwise, readers lose their place and aren’t sure who’s being quoted, and writers often forget where they are and leave out the terminal quotation mark. It’s a mess.
Single quotation marks are not meant to indicate irony, sarcasm, so-called status. And in particular, you use both single and doubles for these purposes—in the same paragraph. Doubles are correct. Stop using singles for this purpose.
A proofreader will check your spelling, too. The word processor’s spell checking isn’t enough. It misses homophones.
Thanks Teach. I see you are on top of all the important stuff.
Grammar and spelling are important, and proofreading is crucial. I’m a poet and in a concentrated genre like that, a misplaced comma or a misspelled word could change the entire meaning of a poem.
I think grammar and punctuation standards began in earnest in the 12th or 13th centuries by monks who were concerned about poorly crafted translations and copies of sacred documents.
Actually if you look at even early 19th century writing, punctuation, capitalization, grammar and spelling remain idiosyncronatic
e.g.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-03-02-1285
Just over the past week or so, I’ve noticed a lot of sloppy errors in the Towmhall and FrontpageMagazine columns
Proof reading is as racist as math.
I do agree that grammar and usage are important. But Daniel writes voluminously and must perforce do so hastily to say all that he needs to say. Daniel writes many articles daily, all are serious, and several are of considerable length. Many provide information found nowhere else. Overpaid legacy print columnists write a measly two or three articles per week for nationally syndicated newspapers. Daniel’s output (and, might I add, that of Robert Spencer) leaves them all in the dust.
Good. I did not catch that I had typed “plant” for “planet.” I’ll be grateful if you can correct that.
A proof reader such as would make a fine addition to FPM but nobody likes pedants who criticize trypos and minor grammatical errors.
But hey. maybe we can rap Greenfield on his knuckles with a ruler and that would make you happy.
lol, that reminded me. In 1961 I spent part of my school year (5th grade) in Denmark. One day we had a substitute who didn’t know I was an American. All the kids sprang to attention when the teacher entered the room and I kinda stumbled and he noticed. I still remember him eyeballing me. Later he was droning on something in Danish which I didn’t understand, not being fluent in the language, so I ended up putting my head down on my desk. Next thing I know he had snuck up behind me and was rapping me on the head with a ruler. Fortunately the other kids saved me, screaming “Amerikaner! Amerikaner!” at the teacher.
Look at what the EU and government of the Netherlands are doing to the Dutch farmers and the food supply they produce.
Is that what we want to happen here?
“Control the food, control the people.” Kissinger???
The Alzheimer Joe administration wants that.
Just like it was under Clinton(Bill)and Inferior Secretary Babbling Babbit(Bruce)Its just the same many used to describe him
Why does the Federal Government own land? That land should be returned to the States.
Without public/federal lands then the public cannot enjoy the property. Privately owned land the owner can dictate who can be on the property and what they can do.
So, people want government owned land so they can be on the property.
Western states especially have a lot of federally owned land. They took it away from the state when it joined the union. Grand theft by the federales. The state should own the land. Any use of the land, it should be voted on by the people. of that state.
WTF?????????????????
The land should belong to the people, period. Not the State, not the Federal Government. The People, who own and should run this country.
Can BLM sell or lease land to Red China? (I distinguish Red China from the Republic of China, which is seated on the island of Taiwan)
Try buying a parcel of undeveloped land in a remote corner of N. America–I did–prices have been sky-high since Obama. Yes, prices of everything that require plenty of land will sky-rocket even more than they already have.
The only legitimate purpose remaining for the BLM is to oversee the sale of all properties it controls to the highest bidder. It should then be completely disbanded and its employees fired.
I think the last few years have demonstrated that the middle class will put up with practically anything as long give them token political representation and a good behaviour media meme model to follow so there’ll be much to put up with.
Some people are going to do well out of it, Not the middle class but losing your edge is the price you pay for security and comfort.
Who,s armed rebellion will fix this?
It might be the only way.
People who keep chicken coops have two options. They can create fox proof chicken coops or they can eliminate foxes. The GOP is good for neither. What it is good for is meeting foxes half way and keeping chickens.
Armed rebellion, you’re not about armed rebellion You’d have to stop talking trash and talking trash is what Trump is all about. And you love it.
You think it gives you a way to save face.
Because at the end of the day you already surrendered long ago and Trump’s just the best you can do now.
That’s why the media has such a great with the “insurrection” meme. Because it’s just such a fantasy that has nothing to do with the reality of capitulation. A capitulation that can’t be acknowledged by the other side. That’s the genius of Dems.
That’s the genius of Dems. They create the dark fantasy of French Revolution and then make you play hide and seek with your tails which you’re more than happy to do since it provides distraction.
I suggest we return these eco-terrorist’s homes into wildlife habitat, in order to restore the ecological balance.
It’s called”Pulling Out ALL The STOPS”???????????????????????????
Out of curiosity what percentage of these lands are also claimed by Native Americans? Aside from the B.L.M not carrying out their fiduciary duty in terms of management, can they lease land to a lobby group if there is a conflicting claim by natives?
Can they legally lease land to entities receiving funding from a foreign power? Don’t they have to pay some sort of rent on this land? If these groups stop receiving U.S government funds will they still be able to pay for the leases.
I have no doubt that this will end up in court, very likely in front of the SCOTUS, and the Brandon (mis) administration doesn’t exactly have the best record when it comes to executive orders or decisions being upheld. Preventing development, or any other human activity, is NOT management, lands still have to be attended to. Many of these outfits are so corrupt that it’s unlikely they will do anything to manage these lands, which would put them in breach of the terms of the leases, assuming they are legal to begin with. They are also so corrupt that they would let the Chicoms in to do whatever they like on these lands.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/04/03/2023-06310/conservation-and-landscape-health?fbclid=IwAR0I96_ql1t79OejOUWbwp1hI8f9mT3f39SkpdgSkL-ebixNzDdznn3ciRY
Been trying to figure out what I can say on these topics. Grazing on public lands is an important issue. They also figure out how much land wildlife needs to forage on. Good work Daniel!
What I find disturbing is how so many things are now seen as “the governments”. A separation has grown between the govt and the people creating an “us against them” mentality in many cases. The last two Democrat presidents, and other prominent Dems, have widened this gap by demonizing anyone not on their side as “enemies of Democracy” with terms such as “Christian Nationalists”, “white supremacists” and “extreme MAGA Republicans” while at the same time claiming to restore unity to the Nation. We have 400+/- federal agencies that have, in effect, taken over the role of Congress by passing laws under the guise of mandates, many of them restricting or eliminating long-held civil rights.
this land grab is par for the course of a “govt” that sees itself as separate from the people. It is a tyranny in the making, inch by inch. This only happens when effective representation is lacking leaving the people to fend for themselves in an “us against them” scenario. We have strayed so far from our founding principles it seems unlikely we will ever see them restored.
“And the availability and price of meat in supermarkets would soon reflect that grim reality.”
Delighted to hear! There is no known need for animal flesh in the human diet. Your culturally determined dietary preferences come at the cost of horrific suffering on the part of sentient beings who suffer just the way you do. The way we treat animals is a shame against our civilization.
This needs comments by 6/20/2023
The dept. of Interior wants to offer conservation leases to environmentalists,
Change multiple use to something Congress has not authorized, nothing will be off the table hunting, mining, grazing, logging, whole areas will be off limits to protect the spotted frog, unlimited ACEC’s areas of environmental concern, locked gates, more decommissioned roads.
If the DOI approve this all federal forest/resource plans will have to start over, environmentalists will have new multiple reasons to sue, in the current administration they will settle giving them whatever they want.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/04/03/2023-06310/conservation-and-landscape-health?fbclid=IwAR0I96_ql1t79OejOUWbwp1hI8f9mT3f39SkpdgSkL-ebixNzDdznn3ciRY