"Will lawmakers put a man who has argued that “we do not even need” the vast majority of federal lands in charge of 250 million acres of them?"
"The recently formed Senate public lands caucus is facing its first test of whether Republicans and Democrats can come together to defend America’s shared lands and waters.
So far, it’s looking unlikely.
Several members of the Senate Stewardship Caucus also sit on the powerful Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which will take up President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management, Steve Pearce, as soon as next month. The former congressman from New Mexico has a long record of working to roll back public land protections and environmental laws, going as far as advocating for federal land divestment, as Public Domain previously reported.
Most caucus members have held their tongues on Pearce’s nomination. The two that have taken a stand for or against him have done so on party lines."
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