Tracy Stone-Manning Tapped to Lead Bureau of Land Management (1)

The White House on Thursday nominated Tracy Stone-Manning as the Bureau of Land Management director, potentially putting an environmentalist in charge of America’s largest land-owning agency.

Manning is a senior adviser for conservation policy at the National Wildlife Federation and is the organization’s former associate vice president for public lands. If confirmed as land bureau chief, she would preside over all of America’s onshore oil, gas and coal reserves and manage more than 244 million acres of federal public land, mostly in the West.

She is at least the second environmentalist named to lead the land bureau. The Interior Department ...