Titus calls to remove provision to sell Nevada public lands from reconciliation package

Titus calls to remove provision to sell Nevada public lands from reconciliation package

Rep. Dina Titus filed an amendment to the reconciliation bill that would remove Rep. Mark Amodei’s amendment to sell public land in Nevada.

A Midnight Public Land Sale? - Legal Planet

There was a last minute amendment added to the House Natural Resources Committee markup on May 6, an amendment which has gotten a lot of negative attention, including from conservative outdoors advocates. The amendment, made by Representative Amodei (Republican, Nevada) and Rep. Maloy (Republican, Utah) would mandate the sale or exchange of at least 449,174 acres of federal public lands in Nevada and Utah.  (For a sense of scale, that’s about ha…