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LEMON-GARLIC BEEF TRI-TIP AND ROASTED POTATOES
Roasting lemons brings out the natural sweetness of the fruit. Try this with a tender Tri-Tip Roast and hearty potatoes for a bright and flavorful meal.
Ingredients
• 1 beef Tri-Tip Roast (1-1/2 to 2 pounds) • 2 large lemons, divided • 1 tablespoon minced garlic • 2 teaspoons coarse grind black pepper • 2 pounds fingerling or small red-skinned potatoes, halved or quartered if large • 2 tablespoons olive oil • 1/2 teaspoon salt
Preparation
Preheat oven to 425°F. Grate 1 tablespoon peel and squeeze 1 tablespoon juice from 1 lemon. Combine lemon peel, lemon juice, garlic and pepper in small bowl; reserve 1 tablespoon for potatoes. Press remaining lemon mixture onto all surfaces of beef Tri-Tip Roast. Cut remaining lemon into 12 wedges lengthwise; set aside. Place roast on rack in shallow roasting pan. Do not add water or cover; set aside. Combine reserved 1 tablespoon lemon mixture, potatoes, lemon wedges, oil and 1/2 teaspoon salt on rimmed sheet pan; toss to coat evenly. Roast beef in 425°F oven 30 to 40 minutes for medium rare; 40 to 50 minutes for medium doneness. Roast potatoes 25 to 30 minutes or until potatoes are tender, stirring once. Remove roast when instant-read thermometer registers 135°F for medium rare; 150°F for medium. Transfer to roast to carving board; tent loosely with aluminum foil. Let stand 15 to 20 minutes. (Temperature will continue to rise about 10°F to reach 145°F for medium rare; 160°F for medium.) Carve roast across the grain into slices; season with salt, as desired. Serve with potatoes and lemon wedges.
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Did You Know?
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“The Bureau of Land Management is working on changes to sage grouse protection plans and a new rule governing livestock grazing on federal land,” said Tracy Stone-Manning, the Bureau Director
By Scott Streater
Tracy Stone-Manning speaking at her confirmation hearing last year.
Photo credit: Francis Chung/E&E News
E&E NEWS PM | Bureau of Land
Management Director Tracy StoneManning told a ranching advocacy group today that the bureau will soon propose amendments to sweeping federal greater sage grouse plans covering millions of acres in an effort to save the bird.
Stone-Manning, speaking at the Public Lands Council’s online annual legislative conference by Zoom, also indicated that BLM is nearing completion of a new rule governing livestock grazing on more than 150 million acres of federal lands.
While Stone-Manning did not disclose specifics about the potential “amendments” to the sage grouse management plans, or details on the grazing rule, she did say that both are key components of an overarching effort by the Biden administration to make federal rangelands “resilient” to the effects of a warming climate and the ongoing drought plaguing much of the West.
“We’re working really hard to develop a suite of policies and management actions to manage drought, provide flexibility of use, restore ecologic function and conserve really important resource values in the face of climate change and extreme drought,” StoneManning said. “You all know this much better than I do because you are on the ground facing it every day.” The extreme drought will mark how BLM manages grazing and other activities on federal lands in the future, she said.
The planned grazing rule follows efforts begun in early 2020 by the Trump administration to update the management of livestock and sheep grazing (Greenwire, Jan. 20, 2020). Stone-Manning assured the ranching group today that BLM is working to incorporate “flexibility” in the upcoming grazing rule that would allow the bureau to respond to rapidly changing rangeland conditions. She said the bureau will work with the ranching community to ensure the health of the lands while still allowing them to be used for grazing, recreation, energy development and other uses. “We recognize that actions taken to ensure the long-term sustainability of our public lands have the potential to create hardships for [the] folks who use public lands for your livelihoods, and folks who use it for recreational purposes,” she said. “Please know that we carry that and understand that in the foreground of our minds.” But she added: “We do, of course, also know that failing to act in the face of prolonged, extreme droughts is going to create even worse impacts to our public lands and greater hardships over the long term, for both the lands and the users of those lands.” She said she is going to be “briefed internally here in the next week or so on both the grazing rule and the sage grouse amendments, and the next steps that we’re ready to bring forward. And as I’m briefed, I promise I will turn to you and share what we know and the approach we expect to take.”
She said BLM is hiring a new seniorlevel employee to serve as a “liaison specific to the ranching community” on issues like rangeland health. “I’m thrilled that help’s on the way.” On sage grouse, BLM last year launched a new effort to potentially amend the Obama-era protection plans approved in 2015 to address growing threats to the bird and its habitat over the past six years from climate change, persistent drought, wildfires and the spread of invasive plant species (Greenwire, 11.19.21). President Biden’s fiscal 2023 budget request this week includes a request for $158.5 million for wildlife habitat management, most of which would go toward implementing conservation efforts for the greater sage grouse and the sagebrush steppe habitat the bird and hundreds of other species occupy (Greenwire, March 28). Part of that money would also support “reviewing and updating sage grouse management in land-use plans to address population declines, new science, and climate change and improve the resilience of long-term conservation strategies,” according to a BLM review of the budget request. The issue of sage grouse management in relation to the grazing is controversial, as grazing allotments sometimes overlap with grouse habitat. If bird populations decline, and the sage grouse were to be listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act, it could have a significant impact on ranching on federal lands. “The 2015 plans are a solid foundation for avoiding the need to list the greater sage grouse,” Stone-Manning said. “Let me say it out loud over again: The last thing we want is to list the greater sage grouse, which is why we are all working so hard.” Kaitlynn Glover, PLC’s executive director, told Stone-Manning during a question-and-answer session after her speech that ranchers are concerned that BLM is not collaborating more closely on the potential amendments with Western states, most of which have their own sage grouse protection plans in place. Stone-Manning pledged that the revised plans will be “state specific,” in that they will recognize the different geological and weather conditions in each state. She noted BLM has been consulting on the issue with the Western Governors’ Association.
GRAZING IMPACTS TO RANGELANDS
Stone-Manning’s speech to the ranching trade group today comes as environmental advocates this month ramped up calls for BLM to better manage livestock and sheep grazing to protect stressed federal lands. The government watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) used BLM data to develop an interactive digital map that found 54 million acres of federal lands the bureau leased for livestock grazing failed land healthy standards for basic physical and biological factors (E&E News PM, March 14).
