BLM Conservation and Landscape Health Rule
Current understanding
The 2024 Conservation and Landscape Health Rule (also called the Public Lands Rule) established a framework putting conservation, ecosystem resilience, and landscape health on comparable footing with other uses under BLM’s multiple-use mandate, including provisions for restoration and mitigation leases. The Bureau of Land Management has moved to fully rescind the rule, citing a return to traditional multiple-use and sustained-yield principles and alignment with national energy policy. Status affects ranchers with grazing permits, energy developers, and conservation lessees on ~245 million acres of BLM land; downstream effects on food prices are indirect and diffuse.
Evidence log
- 2026-05-12 — Rescission of Conservation and Landscape Health Rule: cross-connection with blm-grazing-administration-regulations: Rescission of the 2024 Conservation and Landscape Health Rule interacts with the parallel BLM grazing administration rulemaking; together they define the regulatory posture toward conservation vs. grazing use on BLM lands. (novelty: 2)