Ninety-six percent of all registered voters in Idaho believe that public lands should remain in public hands, according to a ...

New poll find 96% Idaho voters say public lands should remain in public hands 87% of Idaho voters oppose recent proposal to sell off millions of acres of public lands ...

Local governments in Idaho will receive $42.9 million in federal payments to cover the lack of property taxes from federal lands. The Payments in Lieu of Taxes, or PILT, funds go to local ...

At first, the lands were used mainly for their resources, to build railroads and for settlement. Starting in the 1860s and ...

Idaho state legislators from both parties celebrated the death of a federal proposal that would have made millions of acres of public lands, including in Idaho, available to be sold off. On June 30, ...

A new version of a controversial public land sales proposal in Congress cuts back on the land that could be sold in Idaho and 10 other states. But opponents have said the changes aren’t enough.

Idaho’s fourth member of Congress, U.S. Rep. Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho, did not receive a letter and voted to oppose the Public Lands in Public Hands Act, the Utah News Dispatch previously reported.

A new version of a controversial public land sales proposal in Congress cuts back on the land that could be sold in Idaho and 10 other states. But opponents have said the changes aren’t enough.

Ninety-six percent of Idaho registered voters said public lands should remain public, including 97% of registered Democrats ...