The Bureau of Land Management is responsible for managing 262 million acres of land: about one-eighth of the entire area of the United States. Right now, the Bush administration is proposing a harmful new policy that would exempt many destructive activities on these public lands from environmental review and public input.

These rule changes would allow unsustainable grazing and harmful logging practices to pollute streams and watersheds, as well as certain types of oil and gas exploration to tear up sensitive lands all across the West, without any analysis about potential environmental impacts of these activities.

We cannot let the Bureau of Land Management throw away these safeguards that ensure our public lands are protected from harmful actions. Please, tell the agency and the Bush administration to keep environmental review and public participation as vital parts of how our public lands are managed.

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