WASHINGTON, April 19 -- Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Arkansas, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on April 18, 2024:

Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced its final so-called "Conservation and Landscape Health" rule that will fundamentally upend the agency's longstanding, statutory multiple use and sustained yield mandate and cede control of federal lands to wealthy elites and environmental extremists.