Lummis slams BLM’s greater sage-grouse management plan

CHEYENNE (WNE) — Senate Western Caucus Chair Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Congressional Western Caucus Chair Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., wrote a letter to Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning expressing their concerns with its final Greater Sage-Grouse Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA), according to a caucus news release.

“While the Biden-Harris administration spends its final days catering to its radical climate change base, farmers, ranchers and landowners across the West will bear the consequences of its catastrophic failures for years to come,” Lummis said in the release.

“Instead of trusting Wyoming’s experts who have a proven track record on sage-grouse management, this administration continues grasping for control of the West by awarding decision-making power to unelected D.C. bureaucrats who do not know the first thing about western land management,” she wrote. “Rep. Newhouse and I are calling on the BLM to immediately cease any work on the RMPA in this lame duck period to spare the West from a few more weeks of this administration’s Green New Deal policies.”

This plan will affect sage-grouse habitats in Wyoming, California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota.

This story was published on December 6, 2024.