The Biden administration has repeatedly prioritized policies critics argue are politicized environmental efforts which will make conservation and recreational activities on public lands more difficult.
Rules coming down from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could make land unavailable for hunting, fishing and even hiking, outdoorsmen argue.
“It really seems to show to me the lack of consideration and thought that is being put in from bureaucrats from D.C. making decisions about how public lands, in the West predominantly, are being managed,” Sarah Montalbano, an education policy analyst at the Alaska Policy Forum told Fox News Digital. “It’s not getting a lot of input from people who are actually close to these situations.”
Montalbano, who is also a visiting fellow at Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), told Fox News Digital that, in general, the rules coming out of the Biden administration are not friendly toward recreation or energy development.
Gabriella Hoffman, a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum’s Center for Energy and Conservation, said the U.S. government is trying to redefine conservationism through its newly proposed Public Lands Rule, resulting in decreased access to public lands.
“When you see that they’re trying to remake conservation into something else, is it really conservation or is it an alternative kind of view, environmentalism, which is preservationist, which is more restricted [and] really doesn’t welcome people on the landscape and can be exploited.”
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