WASHINGTON — Congress has delivered some key wins on federal land management for the Trump administration even as the Bureau of Land Management, the agency that manages roughly 10 percent of American lands, lacks a director confirmed by the Senate.

Using the Congressional Review Act, lawmakers have vacated three BLM rules regarding management of federal lands in Alaska, North Dakota and Montana. The nullifications remove resource management plans adopted by the BLM during the Biden administration that prevented mining and drilling on federal lands in the states.

The Senate last Thursday also voted to rescind a 2022 BLM record of decision that would close off 11 million acres of the 23 million acre Strategic Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and gas leasing. Rep. Nick Begich, R-Alaska, has

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