BLM Conservation and Landscape Health Rule
Current understanding
The 2024 BLM Conservation and Landscape Health Rule (Public Lands Rule) elevated conservation as a use of BLM lands on par with grazing, mining, and energy development, and created mechanisms like restoration and mitigation leases. A final rule rescinding the 2024 rule in full has been issued, with BLM stating the rescission restores traditional multiple-use and sustained-yield management and aligns land management with national energy policy. Effects: minimal direct impact on renters/buyers; for builders/developers on or near federal lands (energy, grazing permittees, extractive industries), removes a potential permitting/conservation-leasing overlay.
Evidence log
- 2026-07-23 — Strategic Grazing to Reduce Risk of Wildfire Act: cross-connection with strategic-grazing-wildfire-risk-act: Both shape how BLM grazing allotments are managed — the rescinded Conservation and Landscape Health Rule would have overlaid conservation leasing on grazing land, while S1981 would affirmatively deploy grazing as a wildfire-mitigation land-management tool. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-06-03 — To take certain land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Pechanga Band of Indians, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with pechanga-band-land-into-trust: Transfers BLM-administered acreage out of BLM jurisdiction into tribal trust status, removing it from BLM conservation/landscape management frameworks. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-05-12 — Rescission of Conservation and Landscape Health Rule: cross-connection with nm-land-grant-mercedes-federal-coordination: Both concern how BLM balances traditional/multiple uses on retained federal land; the rescission restores the multiple-use baseline that MOU-based traditional-use authorizations operate against. (novelty: 2)