Federal Land

Steve Pearce, a former Republican congressman from New Mexico, will next need to clear a vote in the full Senate in the coming weeks to be confirmed.

One in five Bureau of Land Management employees are veterans. Some worry the bureau's nominee, Steve Pearce, could sell off public land and thus cost veterans their jobs.

As many cities and rural communities across the Mountain West struggle with housing affordability, the Trump Administration suggests federal land as the solution.

Ahead of possible changes by the incoming Trump administration, the poll found that Utah voters were in support of preserving existing monuments and Native stewardship of the land.

December’s USU Ecology Center seminars focused on how the U.S. Forest Service is changing the way they engage stakeholders in landscape management.

The Utah congressman is proposing a bill that would block a BLM rule change to create dedicated leases for conservation, similar to leases for mining or grazing.

In other news, a proposal from the Biden administration would allow conservationists to lease federal land the same way companies and ranchers do.

Utah legislators are voting to have consultants draft a lawsuit challenging the U.S. government's control of federal lands that make up two-thirds of the…