Sen. Mike Lee proposes selling your public land

SALT LAKE TRIBUNE • June 18, 2025

Over 18 million acres of Utah’s public land are eligible to be put up for sale under legislation proposed by Sen. Mike Lee.The eligible land features trails, grazing areas and even some of the state’s most popular ski areas. Lee, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, released an updated draft of the bill over the weekend that calls for the mandatory sale of Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service Land. If passed, the legislation would require 3 million acres of public land to be sold chosen from a pool of 258 million acres across 11 Western states, including Utah years.