GOP Sen. Mike Lee's plan to allow the sale of public lands ran into bipartisan opposition in the Senate and the House.

Utah, pulled his revised public land sale provision from the U.S. Senate’s budget bill on Saturday night. Lee voluntarily ...

Following public outcry, Sen. Mike Lee has removed the sale of public lands from the Senate reconciliation bill.

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

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.

While some U.S. House Republicans threatened to vote against the bill, Lee blamed Senate rules for his decision to pull the ...

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

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

Far from benefiting only the wealthy, these lands could enable starter homes for working families.

Even though the initial sell-off proposal failed, federal lands face a slew of other threats from President Donald Trump’s administration.

Newhouse and a coalition of 4 other Western state Republican representatives sent the letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson.

A proposal to sell some public lands as part of the U.S. Senate’s version of a budget reconciliation bill was downscaled and ...