Zinke, Downing Help Nix Public Lands Sale Provision From Bill

Proposed sale of Utah public land pulled from Congress’ budget bill

U.S. Rep. Celeste Maloy, R-Utah, tries to reason with an unruly crowd during a town hall event at the University of Utah on March 20, 2025. (Kyle Dunphey/Utah News Dispatch)Utah U.S. Rep. Celeste Maloy’s proposal to sell off nearly 11,500 acres of public land in southwestern Utah was shot down this week after receiving bipartisan pushback in Congress. The proposal, which identified parcels owned by the Bureau of Land Management to sell to Washin…

Provision to sell public lands in Nevada and Utah stripped from ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’

A Republican representative from the Mountain West led an effort Wednesday to remove a controversial provision to sell 450,000 acres of federal land in Nevada and Utah from the House reconciliation bill.

‘A huge victory’: Vasquez touts nixing of public lands sell-off in Congressional bill

U.S. Reps. Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) and Ryan Zinke, a Republican from Montana, on May 7, 2025 announced a new bipartisan public lands caucus. (Photo courtesy U.S. Rep. Vasquez's office)The Republican reconciliation bill that cleared the United States House of Representatives by a narrow margin this week no longer authorizes the sale of thousands acres of public land in Utah and Nevada. U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-NM), who co-founded the Bipartisan Pu…

Zinke, Downing help nix public lands sale provision from bill

Western Montana's U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke was key in removing a provision of the 1,100-page domestic policy and tax cut bill Wednesday, narrowly passed by the U.S. House of Representatives early Thursday morning, that would have allowed for the sale…

Bipartisan initiative aims to prevent catastrophic wildfires with critical new legislation: 'When a program works, we should extend it'

Montana has taken a giant step in protecting its forests from wildfires, deforestation, and other environmental hazards. "Every year hundreds of thousands of acres of forest burn to the ground, destroying landscapes, watersheds, and homes. We can't prevent every fire, but we can certainly manage our forests, so they are in better health and more resilient against catastrophic fires," Congressman Ryan Zinke (R-MT-01) said. On May 14, Zinke and fe…

Zinke leads push to strip public lands sale from federal budget bill

Calling it his “San Juan Hill,” a reference to a Spanish-American War battle victory by Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, Montana U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke announced Wednesday he had successfully led a bipartisan charge to remove a provision to sell public…