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Nearly four years after it banned staff from advocating for climate change-related policies, the state Board of Commissioners of Public Lands unanimously voted to lift what it called a gag order.

The board, made up of the state’s three constitutional officers, had passed the order banning public lands staff from climate change advocacy in April 2015. The ban was proposed after commissioners learned then-executive secretary Tia Nelson — who is the daughter of Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson — had served on a task force on global warming.

At that time, two of the three commissioners were Republicans Brad Schimel, then-state attorney general, and Matt Adamczyk, then-state treasurer. Both voted for the ban while Democrat Doug La Follette, secretary of state, cast the opposing vote.

In defense of the ban, Adamczyk said at the time that climate change is unrelated to the board’s mission of managing lands and trust funds.

Now, with all three positions held by Democrats — La Follette, who is still secretary of state, Attorney General Josh Kaul and Treasurer Sarah Godlewski — the ban was repealed.

Not taking climate change into consideration is “completely reckless,” Godlewski, who is also the board chairwoman, said Friday.