A decades-old tree-spiking investigation loomed over a Senate vote Tuesday in which Democrats narrowly prevailed in moving forward President Joe Biden’s controversial nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management.
Nevada Democrats Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen voted with the majority, 50-49, to allow debate on the nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning of Montana to direct the agency. One Republican, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, did not vote.
Rosen met with the nominee and said she is qualified to head an agency that oversees 48 million acres, or 67 percent, of the federal public lands in Nevada. (The federal government owns about 87 percent of all land in Nevada overall, but different patches are overseen by different agencies.)
But Republicans were united in their opposition to Stone-Manning, citing a 1980s investigation into an act of environmental terrorism in Idaho where metal spikes were pounded into trees to prevent them from being harvested. Tree-spiking poses a grave danger to loggers...MORE
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