While the U.S. Senate scrapped plans to sell off federal public lands as part of its budget reconciliation bill negotiations, advocates warn the fight over public lands isn’t over.
More than 790,000 acres of land in Wyoming, heavily concentrated in the eastern half of the state, have been flagged for potential sale or disposal by the Bureau of Land Management, and they can be found in a new interactive map released this by onX and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.
Across the U.S. West, more than 6 million acres of public lands across 17 states were identified, with Wyoming ranking third behind Nevada and New Mexico.
While there’s no guarantee the public lands will be put up for sale — and some have been on the disposal list for decades — they’ve been identified in BLM