KANSAS REFLECTOR • June 7, 2021
Environmental groups are lining up behind President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management ahead of her Tuesday confirmation hearing. More than 100 organizations wrote to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, (D-N.Y.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Monday asking that the Senate confirm Tracy Stone-Manning, a Montanan who led conservation and public lands policy at the National Wildlife Federation. She also served as chief of staff to former Montana Gov. Steve Bullock. Stone-Manning would be the first confirmed BLM director since the Obama administration. Key Republican senators, including Stone-Manning’s home-state Sen. Steve Daines, have not said how they will vote on Stone-Manning’s confirmation.