Congress is poised to approve Stevan Pearce as the new leader of the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees some 245 million acres of public lands and 700-plus million acres of subsurface mineral rights. Hunting and conservation editor Andrew McKean explains what we might expect from Pearce's tenure.

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Hosted & produced by executive editor Natalie Krebs.

Guest is hunting and conservation editor Andrew McKean.

Edited by Mike Pedersen / Eighty Five Audio.

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