The Utah senator’s wildly unpopular proposal would have forced the sale of up to 1.2 million acres of public land in 11 western states
Mike Lee’s Revised Land Grab Still Mandates the Sale of Up to 1.2 Million Acres of Public Land
After telling outraged hunters that he was listening to their concerns, the Utah senator is doubling down on plans to sell off a large amount of federally managed public land in the West
Utah Senator Mike Lee has introduced an amended version of his public-land sell-off plan. But it still mandates the sale more than 1 million acres of public land—Here’s what you can do about it
The Senate Parliamentarian ruled that the lawmaker’s proposal to sell 2 to 3 million acres of public land is invalid. Lee, however, is vowing to reintroduce a modified version
Hunting advocacy group Hunter Nation says the Utah Senator will do the right thing, but many remain unconvinced and insist that the provision must be stripped from the budget bill altogether
Senate Bill’s Public Land Sell-Off Proposal Balloons to More Than 250 Million Eligible Acres
Recent tweaks to the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee’s plan to sell public lands could make nearly 40 percent of the nation’s federally managed public lands eligible for sell-offs to private interests
An interactive map from the Wilderness Society highlights the tracts of US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands that could go up for sale if the Senate’s version of the budget bill passes
Last month, hunters and anglers defeated a proposal in the House budget bill to sell off a half-million acres of public land. Now it’s back in the Senate version””with six times the amount of land at stake
Lawmakers from Utah and Montana are negotiating a compromise that could revive unpopular plans to sell off public lands
In 2023, the Department of the Interior put a 20-year moratorium on mining activity in the watershed that feeds the famed Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Now Congress is on the cusp of stripping those protections away