(NAFB.com) – The Bureau of Land Management has begun the process of rolling back the Biden Administration’s rule allowing conservation leases on its land, reports Successful Farming. The agency on Wednesday released a proposal to rescind the 2024 Public Lands Rule, which aimed to put conservation uses of land on equal footing with grazing, energy production, mining, and recreation. “The previous administration’s Public Lands Rule had the potential to block access to hundreds of thousands of acres of multiple-use land — preventing energy and mineral production, timber management, grazing, and recreation across the West,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a release. “The most effective caretakers of our federal lands are those whose livelihoods rely on its well-being. Overturning this rule protects our American way of life and gives our communities a voice in the land that they depend on.”  BLM’s proposal says the agency has determined the rule “is unnecessary and violates existing statutory requirements.”