The Bureau of Land Management’s New Acting Director Proves the Fight for Public Lands Has Just Begun

Originally published on www.mensjournal.com by J R Sullivan William Perry Pendley, the new acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, wants to dismantle the very agency that he’s overseeing. That’s the concern of a whole bunch of sportsmen’s and conservation groups anyway, and they are not without good reason. The BLM manages 247.3 million acres of public land—land that rightfully belongs to every U.S. citizen, to access and enjoy. The BLM ain’t perfect. But all in all it does a ...