William Perry Pendley, the new head of the Bureau of Land Management, complained in a 2018 interview that employees like the ones he now manages aren’t held “personally liable” or “personally responsible for the harm that they do” regarding federal land management. He also said that one thing that would prevent such problems in the future “is the federal government owning less land.”
He was born and raised in Wyoming and served as a captain in the USMC. He went to Washington as an attorney to former Senator Hansen (R-Wyoming) and served in the Department of the Interior. He returned to Wyoming in 1989 where he’s president and chief legal officer of Mountain States Legal Foundation, not exactly a leftist whacko group. This comes from the mission statement and puts Pendley’s outlook right up front:
You may be shocked to learn that the government now owns 47 percent of the land in the American west. In addition, there are countless regulations controlling citizens’ lives, including where and when they can hunt or fish, run their farms, ranches, and businesses—even limiting how private citizens can use their own land.
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He was born and raised in Wyoming and served as a captain in the USMC. He went to Washington as an attorney to former Senator Hansen (R-Wyoming) and served in the Department of the Interior. He returned to Wyoming in 1989 where he’s president and chief legal officer of Mountain States Legal Foundation, not exactly a leftist whacko group. This comes from the mission statement and puts Pendley’s outlook right up front:
You may be shocked to learn that the government now owns 47 percent of the land in the American west. In addition, there are countless regulations controlling citizens’ lives, including where and when they can hunt or fish, run their farms, ranches, and businesses—even limiting how private citizens can use their own land.
More about the appointment @ New Bureau of Land Management head complained that federal employees aren’t held “personally responsible for the harm that they do”
