(Matthew Brown | AP file photo) Emigrant Peak rises above the Paradise Valley and the Yellowstone River near Emigrant, Mont., in October 2018. The Trump administration has put a conservative advocate who argues for selling off the nation’s public lands in charge of the nation’s 250 million public acres. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has made William Perry Pendley acting head of the Bureau of Land Management, putting the lawyer and Wyoming native in charge of public lands and their resources.
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