Public Lands Council

The Public Lands Council Tuesday announced their 2021 Legislative Conference will be held March 23-25. PLC volunteer leaders, staff, and affiliates will host legislative strategy sessions and workshops on how to successfully advocate the livestock industry in our nation's capital ...

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Public Lands Council say they are pleased to see the House pass legislation designed to protect livestock from protected predators. The bill would compensate livestock producers who experience depredation by federally protected species and fund methods to reduce conflicts between humans and predators. In ...

On Wednesday, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing focused on efforts to modernize the Endangered Species Act. The Endangered Species Act Amendments Act of 2020 reauthorizes the ESA for the first time since 1992 ...

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and Public Lands Council say, “it’s time the grizzly bears are delisted,” from the Endangered Species Act. During a Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing Wednesday, lawmakers discussed the Grizzly Bear State Management Act. Introduced last year ...

Kaitlyn Glover recently said the Great American Outdoors Act sounds wonderful but in actuality is a federal land grab. Glover serves as both the executive director of Natural Resources for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association as well as the executive director of the Public Lands Council. ...

On Tuesday, President Trump signed the Great American Outdoors Act. In a signing ceremony, Trump said the legislation "builds on my administration's unwavering commitment to conserving, and the grander, the splendor, of God's creation." The bill establishes a National Park and Public Lands Restoration Fund to provide up to $9 billion to fix backlogged maintenance at national parks and o

A coalition of environmental groups is challenging the Trump administration rewrite of the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA. The Environmental Defense Fund, along with other organizations, call the rewrite an “attack” on Americans. Leading th ...

The Public Lands Council announced Monday Kaitlynn Glover as the organization’s new Executive Director.  Glover will serve as the chief lobbyist for the organization, representing cattle and sheep producers in western states on resource issues affecting their operations. Glover wi...

Lasting and substantive. That’s the description from Ethan Lane, Executive Director of the Public Lands Council when he talks about the changes he is working to implement with the Trump Administration.   “That’s the goal. We want to be as good...

The Public Lands Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association announced support for legislation to address a planning rule by the Bureau of Land Management.  The resolutions introduced in both the House and Senate disapproves the BLM’s Planning 2.0 rule finalized...