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(Writers on the Range) Aaron Weiss: This Trump nominee wants to liquidate public lands

Steve Pearce’s nomination tests Senate resolve as he supports selling millions of acres of public lands to private developers, risking traditional conservation and recreation values.

Do Western senators really care about keeping public lands in public hands? Steve Pearce, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Bureau of Land Management, is a litmus test of their commitment. Throughout his political career, Pearce has worked to privatize and undermine our public lands. As a New Mexico congressman, he co-sponsored several bills to dispose of national public lands. This alone ought to disqualify him from running the agency…

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Longmont Times-Call broke the news in Boulder, United States on Sunday, December 14, 2025.
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