House Republicans Add Land Sales To Anti-Conservation Budget Bill

The committee passed the 11th-hour change after spending a full day batting away Democratic attempts to blunt the GOP’s unprecedented attack on public land protections.

A sunset shot of the Las Vegas Strip taken from a trail on the Southeast side of the valley. Image by Ryan Hafey at Unsplash.

Republicans on the House Committee on Natural Resources moved to dispose of thousands of acres of federal land in Nevada and Utah late Tuesday, as part of a sweeping budget bill to boost energy and mineral extraction, while disman…