Conservative Wyoming Couldn’t Stomach Republican Public Land Sale

Federal budget bill moves on without public land sale – Alamogordo Daily News

Sarah RubinsteinAlamogordo NewsOver the weekend, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) made the decision to remove the public land sale provision from the federal budget bill. The… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close

Conservative Wyoming couldn’t stomach Republican public land sale

Although Donald Trump won Wyoming by a wider margin than any other state in the 2024 presidential election, Equality State residents broke sharply from his party as Republicans sought to sell off 2-3 million acres of public land in the West. Across a state that often supports and promotes conservative initiatives, there was scant support in recent weeks for the sell-off provision in the Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill. The Equality State opposed…

The real land-grab isn’t Mike Lee’s — it’s Biden’s ‘30 by 30’

Something ugly is unfolding on social media, and most people aren’t seeing it clearly. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) — one of the most constitutionally grounded conservatives in Washington — is under fire for a housing provision he first proposed in 2022.You wouldn’t know that from scrolling through X. According to the latest online frenzy, Lee wants to sell off national parks, bulldoze public lands, gut hunting and fishing rights, and hand America’s w…

Western public land sale axed from Senate budget bill: #Utah U.S. Senator Mike Lee withdraws a plan that could have auctioned more than a million acres — Angus M. Thuermer Jr. (WyoFile.com)

This map shows land owned by different federal government agencies. By National Atlas of the United States – http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/fedlands.html, “All Federal and Indian Lands”, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32180954 Click the link to read the article on the WyoFile website (Angus M. Thuermer Jr.): June 28, 2025 Utah Sen. Mike Lee withdrew his land-sale provision from the Senate reconciliation budge…