Project 2025 is a plan about how to regulate and control people of color, including how they organize, work, play and live. It seeks to regulate what they do with their bodies, how they advocate for their rights, and how they build family and community — all while disregarding the historical injustices and contemporary persecution they have experienced.
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Department of the Interior
Rulemaking. The following policy reversals require rulemaking: • Rescind the Biden rules and reinstate the Trump rules regarding: 1. BLM waste prevention;
2. The Endangered Species Act rules defining Critical Habitat and Critical Habitat Exclusions;*
3. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act; and 4. CEQ reforms to NEPA.**
• Reinstate President Trump’s plan for opening most of the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska to leasing and development.
Personnel Changes. The new Administration should be able to draw on the enormous expertise of state agency personnel throughout the country who are capable and knowledgeable about land management and prove it daily. States are better resource managers than the federal government because they must live with the results. President Trump’s Schedule F proposal“ regarding accountability in hiring must be reinstituted to bring success to these reforms. Consistent with the theme of bringing successful state resource management examples to the forefront of federal policy, DOI should also look for opportunities to broaden state-federal and tribal-federal cooperative agreements.
IMMEDIATE ACTIONS
BLM Headquarters. BLM headquarters belongs in the American West. After all, the overwhelming majority of the 245 million surface acres (10 percent of the nation’s landmass) managed by the agency lies in the 11 western states and Alaska: Amere 50,000 surface acres lie elsewhere. Moreover, 97 percent of BLM employees are located in the American West.
Thus, the Trump Administration’s decision to relocate BLM headquarters from Washington, D.C., to the West was the epitome of good governance: That is, it was not only well-informed, but it was also implemented efficiently, effectively, and with an eye toward affected career civil servants. Plus, despite overblown chatter from the inside-the-Beltway media, Congress, with bipartisan support, approved funding the move.
Meanwhile, state, tribal, and local officials, the diverse collection of stakeholders who use public lands and western neighbors became accustomed to having top BLM decision-makers in Grand Junction, Colorado, rather than up to four