Bruce Westerman actually said...

In hearings, we have Federal land managers come into the hearing, the National Park Service being one of them.

Mr. Obermueller, the BLM's proposed planning rule is lifted almost entirely from the Forest Service's planning rules adopted in 2012.

So he testified that they'd already been working with NatureServe. When the assessment came along, they just took the work they'd already do...

So if you were to look into it and found out that they had been working on this before the assessment ever began, you wouldn't have any prob...