Source: SFGate
“A bipartisan attempt to stop the federal government from selling hundreds of thousands of acres of public land in Nevada and Utah — including a 311-acre parcel that borders Zion National Park — succeeded in a final committee hearing before a sprawling budget bill went to the House of Representatives for a vote on Thursday morning. Ryan Zinke, the Republican representative from Montana who was the secretary of the Interior during the first Trump administration, led the push to remove the public lands sell-off from the House reconciliation bill. ‘It’s a no now. It will be a no later. It will be a no forever,’ Zinke told the Associated Press earlier this month.” (05/22/25)