CONFIRMED: Steve Pearce is a major threat to public lands

An anti-conservation hardliner now leads the Bureau of Land Management.

Momoko, the Senate has voted to confirm former Rep. Steve Pearce as the director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)—the agency responsible for overseeing 245 million acres of public lands. That means the nation's largest public lands agency will be led by a man who has championed selling off and leasing as much public land as possible, and even suggested he wants to "reverse the trend" of public land ownership. We need to mobilize now to defend public lands from Pearce and his anti-conservation agenda—and your support today will power the fight. Please rush a tax-deductible emergency gift today so we can hold him and the administration accountable, and take immediate action whenever and wherever they attempt to sell off our shared wild places for the sake of corporate profits >> Americans overwhelmingly agree that public lands should stay in public hands: 84 percent of Western voters across party lines believe the rollbacks of public lands protections are a serious issue. Yet despite that consensus, millions of acres of public land will now be under the leadership of someone who has spent his career pushing to sell them off—treating our national parks, monuments, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas and forests not as magnificent treasures to protect, but as assets to exploit for private gain. The stakes couldn't be higher: The Bureau of Land Management oversees countless wild landscapes that sustain wildlife, provide clean air and water, and offer all of us the chance to connect with our natural world. Together, we can make sure these lands are protected—not sold off to the highest bidder. Your support today helps ensure we're ready to defend them, wherever and whenever they're threatened. GIVE $35 GIVE $70 GIVE $140 MAKE YOUR GIFT OF A DIFFERENT AMOUNT Please rush your urgent gift today to power The Wilderness Society's work to defend America's treasured wild places from industrial destruction >> Thank you for standing with us. The Wilderness Society Bob Wick, BLM

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