Public outcry and bipartisan opposition helped stop a senator’s proposal to sell off public lands in the Senate's budget bill ...

Though Montana received an exemption, Sens. Tim Sheehy and Steve Daines and Reps. Ryan Zinke and Troy Downing remained vocal in their opposition.

Utah Sen. Mike Lee has rescinded his proposal to sell millions of acres of protected federal land for housing developments, following significant backlash from the public and fellow lawmakers.  Lee ...

A controversial provision to sell off federal public land, including in Washington state, has been removed from the ...

Conservationists, hunters, fishermen and outdoorsmen celebrated Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s decision to withdraw his public land sales proposal from the “big beautiful” tax bill Saturday. Lee, who ...

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

Three million acres of public land across California and 10 other Western states won’t be auctioned to the highest bidder ...

Utah, pulled his revised public land sale provision from the U.S. Senate’s budget bill on Saturday night. Lee voluntarily withdrew the measure because the “strict constraints of the budget ...

Utah Senator’s plan to sell millions of acres of public land dropped from the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ but oil and gas fights ...

New Mexico is home to about 25 million acres of federally owned public lands, including five national forests.

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” will be without Senator Mike Lee’s controversial public land sale provision… and that’s a win for the American people.

A Utah senator’s efforts to put public lands on the auction block ended quietly Saturday night in a social media post ...