Sandstone formations are shown here in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument on May 10, 2017, outside Boulder, Utah ...

The majority of land in the House provision is in Nevada, including the counties that encompass Reno, Las Vegas and the fast-growing city of Fernley, according to maps released by the measure’s ...

A proposed sale of federal land to local governments in Utah is raising concerns that it could help pave the way for a controversial water pipeline from Lake Powell. The big picture: The Lake ...

It highlight US Forest Service lands in green and Bureau of Land Management lands in yellow. Notably, Utah Sen. Mike Lee—who crafted the provision—exempted the state of Montana from his sell ...

Utah has identified some 18.5 million acres of federal land within the state’s boundaries that are currently administered by the Bureau of Land Management on behalf of all Americans—and it ...

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee's bill calls for the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service to sell off up to 3.3 million acres in Utah and 10 other western states over ...

The bill directs cabinet secretaries who oversee the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service to sell between 0.5% and 0.75% of federal land, or between 2 million and 3 million acres.

BILLINGS, Mont. — More than 2 million acres of federal lands would be sold or transferred to states or other entities under a budget proposal from Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, reviving a ...

Among Utah’s leadership, his positions on federal land are widely held. Last year, the state attorney general filed suit to the United States Supreme Court, seeking to seize 18.5 million acres ...

Republican officials in Utah last year filed a lawsuit last seeking to take over huge swathes of federal land in the state, but they were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.