HEINRICH LEADS LETTER OPPOSING INTERIOR'S WILDERNESS POLICY REVIEW, ANOTHER PLOY BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO WEAKEN PUBLIC LANDS PROTECTIONS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich issued the following news release:

Heinrich, colleagues: "Given this administration's obsession with development and disposal of public lands, it seems clear that this comment period is really just a ploy to weaken protections for public lands"

WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, led nine colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum strongly opposing Interior's wilderness management policy review, which may threaten the wilderness character of public lands and disqualify them for future designation by Congress - undermining Congress' role in wilderness manag...