A Republican-sponsored proposal before Congress to mandate the sale of federal public lands is getting a mixed reception from ...

More than 2 million acres of federal lands would be sold to states or other entities under a budget proposal from Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee — including some in San Diego and Imperial Counties.

Lee introduced a now-removed amendment to Trump’s policy megabill that mandated the sale of up to 3 million acres. It did ...

A Utah Republican had proposed selling public lands in the West to states or other entities for use as housing or infrastructure.

Rep. Cliff Bentz, the lone Republican in Oregon’s congressional delegation, said Wednesday, June 25, that he opposes a provision in a budget bill that would require the federal goverment to sell up to ...

Grand County has escaped for now from the proposed sale of public lands mainly in the American West as proposed by Sen Mike ...

The provision would have forced the sale of thousands of acres of federal public land across Arizona and other Western states ...

The bill would allows for no more than 3 million acres to be sold, but gives interested parties an opportunity to consider purchasing from large swaths of land ...

Some changes to public lands ownership, such as state trust land exchanges, could benefit all public land constituents.

Efforts to sell public lands fail, but lawmakers and advocates remain concerned about the environmental impact of the “big ...

Once a rallying cry, now a reality. A controversial proposal to require the sale of a fraction of a percent of federally owned public lands isn’t moving forward. U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican ...