Latest Budget Draft in Congress Would Put some Colorado Public Lands up for Sale

Public lands in Colorado could be for sale if Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation proposal passes

The sale of federal public lands in the West is back on the menu as the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources released its portion of the chamber’s budget reconciliation package.  The committee released its text on Wednesday night, which includes a proposal that mandates the sale of between 2 million to 3 million acres of U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands, purportedly for housing and other “associated community n…

Land managers defend budget cuts, plans to sell Colorado public lands at Congressional hearings

A provision to the Big Beautiful Bill requires the Forest Service and BLM to sell up to 3.3 million acres of public lands for housing

Latest budget draft in Congress would put some Colorado public lands up for sale

Congress has revived a proposal to sell Western public lands to minimize increases to the deficit in the proposed budget bill — and this time, federal land in Colorado would not be left out. A provision in the U.S. Senate’s draft of the national budget bill made public Wednesday would require the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service to sell between 0.5% and 0.75% of the 438 million acres the agencies manage across the West. The upper…

Millions of acres of public land in Colorado, other Western states could be sold under Senate reconciliation bill

Senate GOP Legislation “Is Just Open Season on Public Lands,” Critics Warn

It’s being called a giveaway to corporate interests and the rich disguised as an effort to alleviate the housing crisis.

Conservation groups raise alarms as Senate looks to sell off public lands

Holy Cross Wilderness (photo by John Fielder). Several conservation groups late Wednesday issued the following press releases on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee releasing its proposed bill text for President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that has already passed the House and must now pass the Senate. The OBBB once again looks to the sale of public lands in order to extend tax breaks that will mostly benefit the weal…