{"id":4103,"date":"2017-11-19T10:07:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T17:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:24","slug":"karen-budd-falen-is-unfit-to-lead-the-bureau-of-land-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=4103","title":{"rendered":"Is Karen Budd-Falen unfit to lead the Bureau of Land Management?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/KB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4104\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/KB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"875\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/KB.jpg 875w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/KB-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/KB-768x441.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWith a career dedicated to undermining public lands and public servants, Budd-Falen is uniquely unqualified for the director\u2019s post<\/p>\n<p>Budd-Falen is uniquely unqualified to oversee the BLM, a department charged with managing 258 million acres of America\u2019s public lands\u200a\u2014\u200aand nearly 700 million acres of oil, gas, and other minerals\u200a\u2014\u200aon behalf of the American public. She has spent her career fighting against the very existence of U.S. public lands, filing frivolous lawsuits against the BLM, working to subvert public land managers, supporting unpopular efforts to dispose of public lands, and even aligning herself with fringe extremists.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three important reasons Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and the Trump administration should look elsewhere rather than nominate Budd-Falen to run one of America\u2019s most important agencies. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/westwise\/three-reasons-karen-budd-falen-is-unfit-to-lead-the-bureau-of-land-management-29634afbbb3 https:\/\/www.thefencepost.com\/news\/wyoming-attorney-karen-budd-falen-may-be-next-blm-leader\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ravallirepublic.com\/opinion\/letters\/article_c92b9d8d-9ecc-52e5-829e-8f2c91b9464a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wyoming lawyer architect of public land disposal movement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefencepost.com\/news\/wyoming-attorney-karen-budd-falen-may-be-next-blm-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Budd-Falen is uniquely unqualified to oversee the BLM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a career dedicated to undermining public lands and public servants, Budd-Falen is uniquely unqualified for the director\u2019s post Budd-Falen is uniquely unqualified to oversee the BLM, a department charged with managing 258 million acres of America\u2019s public lands\u200a\u2014\u200aand nearly 700 million acres of oil, gas, and other minerals\u200a\u2014\u200aon behalf of the American public. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-public-lands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4106,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}