BLM’s heated Rock Springs plan took 12 years to finish. Now the feds must redo it in one.

BLM’s heated Rock Springs plan took 12 years to finish. Now the feds must redo it in one.

by Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile ROCK SPRINGS—Two years ago, employees of the Bureau of Land Management’s Wyoming office encountered misinformation-fueled hysteria during public meetings about a conservation-heavy draft plan for managing a 3.6 million acre swath of southwest Wyoming. Then, just nine months after the BLM’s especially controversial plan was finalized, the Trump administration ordered the agency to redo the process. On Wednesday, the BLM’s…