WASHINGTON D.C. (Enviro Snowflake Brief- Not Real News)— William Perry Pendley, the Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), says wildlife is the greatest threat facing our public lands, and he’s the MAN to face it down.
Pendley spoke of an “existential threat” to our public lands caused by wolves, grizzly bears, ungulate migration corridors, and the annoying Endangered Species Act.
“And don’t forget the ‘bane of my existence’ those miserable wild horses,” a rosy cheeked Pendley remarked.
“All of these wildlife burdens are obstacles to keeping Americans from feeling secure knowing our public lands are being used for us- all of us profiteers. Our public lands are hard at work every day to make American energy independent, and to preserve our 1890s western cowboy lifestyle through subsidized welfare ranching,” suggested Pendley.
“Don’t we all want that!”
The old Sagebrush Rebellion attorney added, “I’m a zealous advocate for my client today. My client is now the President of the United States and Secretary Bernhardt. Can you think of two greater protectors of our western public lands?”
Acting BLM Director Pendley delivered his remarks to a room full of western public land ranchers and extraction industry executives during an “invite only” BLM conference held at the Trump Hotel in Washington, which followed a Trump 2020 Reelection Campaign sponsored prayer breakfast for the heavy donors in the group.
William Perry Pendley has spent much of his life waging a crusade to wreck the very agency that he now oversees. The grenade-throwing right-wing attorney has called climate change a “fiction” and climate activism a “cult,” which made him the perfect BLM nominee by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, a former oil lobbyist to be the steward of our 244 million acres of pristine lands.
Sec. Bernhardt is pushing a BLM “energy dominance” agenda, unapologetically for Trump, opening up vast new tracts of public land for oil and gas drilling and other forms of development.
Pendley concluded his remarks by emphasizing, “This wildlife obstacle course for our extraction industry and our $1.35/acre grazing cowboy rancher is a pain in my ass as their new ‘bitch boy,’ and it (wildlife stuff) is a threat to Americans comforting view of seeing cows grazing and wells drilling deep, across our vast western public lands.”
