For the first time in three decades, the federal government has released a study tallying up the amount of oil and gas under ...

Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico called Mike Lee’s land-sale proposal “horsesh*t” and said “85% of the money from these ...

Utah senator trims plans, calling targeted BLM land “unused,” “mismanaged” and “only appropriate for housing.” ...

Once a rallying cry, now a reality. A controversial proposal to require the sale of a fraction of a percent of federally owned public lands isn’t moving forward. U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican ...

America's housing shortage is worst in Western states. That's also where the federal government owns the most land.

The BLM owns close to 70 percent of the land in Nevada, over 40 percent of the land in Utah, and roughly a quarter of the land in Idaho, Oregon, Alaska, and Wyoming.

In late June 2025, an ancient city covering several square miles was discovered beneath Wyoming's Horse Peak mountain. In ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced, June 23, 2025, during a meeting of the Western Governors’ Association in New Mexico, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is rescinding ...

Revoking “Roadless Rule” protection from 58 million acres of U.S. Forest Service land could leave the agency wandering without a map, according to forest policy observers. The proposal announced ...