FILE: Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe. If the budget is passed by the July 4 deadline, an estimated 16 million acres in California ...

The fight over the sale of federal public lands in the West has been revived after the release of a fresh GOP proposal to ...

U.S. Sen Mike Lee, R-Utah, is working to place a provision mandating the sale of more than 3 million acres of public lands — an amount of land greater than the total landmass of several eastern states ...

The U.S. Senate added a mandate to the spending bill to auction off enormous swaths of public land controlled by the Forest ...

Colorado Democrats are leading the effort against legislation proposed by Senate Republicans that would sell off millions of ...

U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse talks to emergency responders and public lands managers in Vail in 2023 (David O. Williams photo).

Opponents say that the plan to sell public lands isn't about fixing the affordable housing crisis. It's about reshaping land ownership in the West.

Democratic members of the Colorado congressional delegation criticized a recent proposal by U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah ...

A Utah senator's proposal would allow the federal government to sell off public land in Utah, Colorado and other Western states.

Some Montanans are reacting with anger over a U.S. Senate proposal to sell off federal lands even though land in Montana ...

The draft from a Senate committee lists 11 “eligible” states where millions of acres of public land could be sold. Those include every state in the West save for Montana.