Senator Mike Lee of Utah introduced language that would sell off up to three million acres of federal lands in 12 Western ...

More than 2 million acres of federal lands would be sold or transferred to states or other entities under a budget proposal ...

Senate Republicans want to sell the land to build more housing in the West, but the idea is contentious even within their own ...

Mike Lee’s provision added to budget bill would call on Agriculture and Interior agencies to sell some of their land holdings ...

While Senators Steve Daines and Tim Sheehy support the budget bill, they have sidestepped questions about whether they would endorse the bill should it include provisions for public land sales.

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.