(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Deputy director of the Bureau of Land Management, William Perry Pendley talks talk about wild horses, recreation and other issues the BLM is dealing with in Utah during a Sept. 2, 2020, Salt Lake Tribune interview. At the time he had been serving as the agency's acting head for more than a year, but in a Sept. 25 ruling, a Montana-based federal judge held that Pendley's continued leadership of the BLM violated the law.