House panel to take up BLM planning process on Thursday

On Thursday, the U.S. House Natural Resources' Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hear from representatives of states and counties about how the Bureau of Land Management's proposed rule to revise regulations that govern how agency resource management plans (RMPs) are developed, amended and revised will affect local governments' role in such plans. Last month, a coalition of counties organized to fight the rule because it marginalized their role