Trump rollback of rule for public lands — including 13,000 square miles in Colorado — would reduce conservation role

Trump rollback of rule for public lands — including 13,000 square miles in Colorado — would reduce conservation role

Federal land managers are considering repealing a set of regulations that prioritized conservation on millions of acres of Colorado public land — the most recent move by the Trump administration in a torrent of changes to federal lands policy. The U.S. Department of the Interior plans to rescind the Biden-era Public Lands Rule, which directs the Bureau of Land Management to consider the conservation of public lands to be equally important as com…