Idaho’s fourth member of Congress, U.S. Rep. Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho, did not receive a letter and voted to oppose the Public Lands in Public Hands Act, the Utah News Dispatch previously reported.

At first, the lands were used mainly for their resources, to build railroads and for settlement. Starting in the 1860s and then particularly in the following several decades, the U.S. government began ...

The bill would have required the Bureau of Land Management to sell up to 1.2 million acres within five miles of population ...

A new version of a controversial public land sales proposal in Congress cuts back on the land that could be sold in Idaho and 10 other states. But opponents have said the changes aren’t enough.

As I continue to advocate for extending the SRS program, I also remain committed to finding a viable long-term solution that ...

The Medicaid cuts recently approved by Congress and President Donald Trump could force states into difficult decisions, ...

A proposal to sell some public lands as part of the U.S. Senate’s version of a budget reconciliation bill was downscaled and subsequently scrapped altogether. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Senate Energy […] ...

The Bureau of Land Management is planning two large geothermal lease sales in the next two months that will advance the Trump administration’s public lands agenda backing this particular renewable ...

The bill would require those states to sell anywhere between 0.5% and 0.75% of all Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service lands in the next five years, which could total up to a maximum ...

A group of five House Republicans says it will vote against the GOP’s tax and spending bill over provisions in the Senate version that would mandate the sale of land owned by the federal ...

"Public lands belong in public hands. This provision is being driven by Senator Lee from Utah. The land sales do not fit Idaho; they do not fit the west," said John Robison, director of public ...

The new Big Beautiful Bill is set to increase logging on federal lands by about 25% over the next few years. The act calls for an increase of 250 million board feet of timber every year on U.S. Forest ...