BLM lands under threat

[SilentBirdHunter]

On 2/25, a key Senate committee will consider Steve Pearce to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency that oversees 245 million acres of our public lands. When he was a member of Congress, Pearce pushed to sell off public lands, erase protections for national monuments, and give away our public lands to corporate polluters to drill and mine. He even went as far to write that “we do not even need” most public lands.
This nomination is a clear indication that the Trump Administration is moving full speed ahead with its agenda to undermine our world-renowned system of public lands and advance privatization for the benefit of a wealthy few. We must demand that our Senators stop this.
Call your Senators and tell them to vote NO: 1-855-980-5638

 

[nrpate05]

Live Webcast

www.energy.senate.gov

 

[nrpate05]

I don't know a lot about Pearce, but am watching the hearing now and many of the Senators are expressing deep concern for sell off of public land, which is great to see. BTW, anyone know the average age of this committee?? If I didn't know any better it could be taking place at a nursing home!

 

[Vic Colfari]

Pearce is as good a choice to lead the BLM as Epstein would have been to start an all girls boarding school. The guy is a total industry hack, and if put in the seat, will undermine and undo everything hunters and conservationists try to protect.

From an NY Times article - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/...ting-trumps-pick-to-oversee-public-lands.html:
"The League of Conservation Voters, which tracks lawmakers’ environmental records in Congress on a scale of 1 to 100 percent, gave Mr. Pearce a 4 percent lifetime rating. He took numerous votes to expand oil and gas drilling and mining, and also to loosen environmental protections.

In 2005, Mr. Pearce voted in favor of a provision in a budget bill that would have allowed the Bureau of Land Management to sell public lands containing minerals to companies below market value. That measure ultimately failed.

In 2012, he criticized former President Theodore Roosevelt for popularizing “big ideas of big forests and big national parks.” He called for reversing the “trend” of public ownership of land, particularly in the West."

Reach out to your senators, and get this joker booted to some golf course where he can turn 79 and wander off into the ponds. This admin will shitcan every public land option we have if we don't speak up.

 

[Laszlo Cravensworth]

I don't know a lot about Pearce, but am watching the hearing now and many of the Senators are expressing deep concern for sell off of public land, which is great to see. BTW, anyone know the average age of this committee?? If I didn't know any better it could be taking place at a nursing home!

That's most of the Senate...

Average age of the natural resources committee is 66.