Conservation groups file to intervene in controversial BLM Public Lands Rule case

Wyoming and Utah sued in June seeking to halt the new rule from being implemented. Groups now file their own motion in attempt to thwart the two states.

A coalition of conservation groups filed a motion in federal court Friday to intervene in Wyoming and Utah’s lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule, becoming the latest entrant to the legal melee over the controversial policy.

The motion, which the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, the Wilderness Society and the Conservation Lands Foundation filed, comes as a rejoinder to Wyoming and Utah’s June motion that seeks to prevent the agency from implementing the Biden administration’s Public Land Rule, also known as the Conservation and Landscape Health Rule.

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