“Unappropriated” can be misleading in other ways. As Utah noted in its lawsuit, those vast tracts do not simply sit idle.

The Utah Bureau of Land Management said it has begun selling tree-cutting permits. They are required to cut down trees on ...

Wyoming officials voted Thursday to proceed with selling a spectacular, pristine piece of state property within Grand Teton ...

President Barack Obama created Bears Ears National Monument in 2016, declaring it would ensure future generations can enjoy ...

Mike Popejoy, Utah Public Lands DirectorIn the canyon country of southern Utah, the Escalante River has sliced and carved ...

David Bernhardt, the second Interior secretary under Trump who helped shepherd the BLM headquarters’ move, is now one of the ...

More Western states are signing on to support Utah’s effort to fight the Bureau of Land Management’s new public lands rule, which allows the agency to control uses on 18.5 million acres of ...

As a Canadian company is working to restart one of Utah’s old uranium mills ... At the same time, the Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on plans to expand clean-up efforts at the ...

Cheyenne says its support for Western states to take over federal land could extend to national parks, forests and wilderness ...

Utah and Idaho along with a handful other western states and special interest groups contend the federal government was supposed to dispose of unappropriated land within their borders but has ...

Wyoming is backing an effort by Utah to wrest ownership of U.S. Bureau of Land Management land from the federal government, arguing that states could “develop the land to attract prospective ...