{"id":27669,"date":"2025-05-13T15:04:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27669"},"modified":"2025-05-13T15:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:25:44","slug":"interior-department-weighs-less-conservation-more-extraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27669","title":{"rendered":"Interior Department Weighs Less Conservation, More Extraction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A leaked version of the department\u2019s five-year strategic planning document favors privatization and economic returns from the nation\u2019s public lands.<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration is proposing a drastic reimagining of how public lands across the United States are used and managed, according to an Interior Department document leaked to the public in late April. The document, a draft of the department\u2019s strategic plan for the next five years, downplays conservation in favor of an approach that seeks to maximize economic returns, namely through the extraction of oil, gas and other natural resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a blueprint for industrializing the public lands,\u201d said Taylor McKinnon, who works on preservation of Southwestern lands for the Center for Biological Diversity<\/a>, a nonprofit organization. \u201cA separate question is whether they\u2019re able to achieve that,\u201d Mr. McKinnon said, vowing lawsuits from his group and others.<\/p>\n

Sweeping proposals are a species native to Washington, D.C., and many of them stand little chance of being realized. However, Donald J. Trump has begun his second term as president at a blistering pace, remaking or shuttering entire federal agencies with such speed that opponents have only recently found their footing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would take it every bit as seriously as I would take what is laid out in Project 2025,\u201d said Jacob Malcom, who until recently<\/a> headed the Interior Department\u2019s office of policy analysis. Project 2025<\/a>, a 900-page document issued in 2023 by the Heritage Foundation, has served as a blueprint for the Trump administration on a host of policy fronts \u2014 including in its approach to public lands. The section of Project 2025 dealing with the Interior Department was primarily written by William Perry Pendley<\/a>, a conservative activist.<\/p>\n

Of the several goals laid out in the draft strategic plan \u2014 which was pointedly made public on April 22, when Earth Day<\/a> is marked \u2014 \u201cRestore American Prosperity\u201d earns top billing. To achieve that aim, the Interior Department proposes to \u201copen Alaska and other federal lands for mineral extraction,\u201d \u201cincrease revenue from grazing, timber, critical minerals, gravel and other nonenergy sources\u201d and \u201cincrease clean coal, oil and gas production through faster and easier permitting.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A leaked version of the department\u2019s five-year strategic planning document favors privatization and economic returns from the nation\u2019s public lands.The Trump administration is proposing a drastic reimagining of how public lands across the United States are used and managed, according to an Interior Department document leaked to the public in late April. The document, a draft of the department\u2019s strategic plan for the next five years, downplays conservation in favor of an approach that seeks to maximize economic returns, namely through the extraction of oil, gas and other natural resources.\u201cThat\u2019s a blueprint for industrializing the public lands,\u201d said Taylor McKinnon, who works on preservation of Southwestern lands for the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit organization. \u201cA separate question is whether they\u2019re able to achieve that,\u201d Mr. McKinnon said, vowing lawsuits from his group and others.Sweeping proposals are a species native to Washington, D.C., and many of them stand little chance of being realized. However, Donald J. Trump has begun his second term as president at a blistering pace, remaking or shuttering entire federal agencies with such speed that opponents have only recently found their footing.\u201cI would take it every bit as seriously as I would take what is laid out in Project 2025,\u201d said Jacob Malcom, who until recently headed the Interior Department\u2019s office of policy analysis. Project 2025, a 900-page document issued in 2023 by the Heritage Foundation, has served as a blueprint for the Trump administration on a host of policy fronts \u2014 including in its approach to public lands. The section of Project 2025 dealing with the Interior Department was primarily written by William Perry Pendley, a conservative activist.Of the several goals laid out in the draft strategic plan \u2014 which was pointedly made public on April 22, when Earth Day is marked \u2014 \u201cRestore American Prosperity\u201d earns top billing. To achieve that aim, the Interior Department proposes to \u201copen Alaska and other federal lands for mineral extraction,\u201d \u201cincrease revenue from grazing, timber, critical minerals, gravel and other nonenergy sources\u201d and \u201cincrease clean coal, oil and gas production through faster and easier permitting.\u201dSouth Lake Tahoe, Calif.Bridget Bennett for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27671,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27672,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27669\/revisions\/27672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}