BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — 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, reviving a longtime ...

When a GOP senator proposed using federal land for affordable housing, right-wing forces revolted to protect what they see as ...

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

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

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

Senator Mike Lee retracts a proposal to sell 3.3 million acres of federal land due to backlash and budget constraints.

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 ...

Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee withdrew his controversial federal land sale provision from the “big beautiful” tax bill after ...

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

People shouldn’t expect to see a plan to sell federal public lands brought back to Congress anytime soon, says Rob Wallace, ...

A mandate to sell somewhere between 2 and 3 million acres across the western U.S. was first struck down by the Senate ...