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
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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
The controversial amendment would have put more than half-a-million acres of public land in Utah and Nevada on the chopping block
Nearly half-a-million acres of BLM and US Forest Service land in Utah and Nevada could be sold off for good without any input from the public
The survey results come amid mounting opposition to federal land sell offs from within the hunting community
The one-year-old rule would have put wild game conservation on a level playing field with grazing and resource extraction on public lands throughout the West
Some senators and representatives are interested in selling off federal lands near national parks and urban areas. Conservationists say its a short-sighted attempt at a land grab
The project would bring new roads and hundreds of drill sites to thousands of acres of public mule deer habitat in the Oregon desert
