Lee and Rep. Celeste Maloy are defending the proposal after conservation groups launched campaigns to try to stop it.

Berry believes that Sen. Lee's sell-off provision would violate his own state's constitution. "Utah disclaimed any ownership rights to federal lands when they entered into the Union [in 1896]," he ...

More than 18 million acres in Utah managed by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management could be eligible for sale under a Senate bill.

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Millions more acres of public lands across Utah could be eligible to be sold off under a recent change to the Senate's budget bill made in a committee chaired by Utah Sen. Mike Lee.

A Utah senator’s efforts to put public lands on the auction block ended quietly Saturday night in a social media post ...

More than 18 million acres in Utah managed by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management could be eligible for sale under a Senate bill.

Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee is working to reassure skeptics who worry that his proposal to sell certain federal lands for housing and community development would usher in a “mass sell-off ...