Land Transfer

A provision in the reconciliation bill would sell “underutilized” public lands for housing, but it doesn't require those parcels be sold to local governments or for that housing to be affordable.

Approximately 750 people joined in a peaceful rally Saturday on Cortez’s Main Street to protest the policies of the Trump administration.

More than 3 million acres of federal public lands in the West could be put up for sale under the latest budget reconciliation proposal put forth by the U.S. Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

According to researchers, cuts and firings at federal agencies like U.S. Forest Service could help efforts to privatize some public lands.