Ninety-six percent of Idaho registered voters said public lands should remain public, including 97% of registered Democrats ...

At first, the lands were used mainly for their resources, to build railroads and for settlement. Starting in the 1860s and ...

New poll find 96% Idaho voters say public lands should remain in public hands 87% of Idaho voters oppose recent proposal to sell off millions of acres of public lands ...

Idaho state legislators from both parties celebrated the death of a federal proposal that would have made millions of acres of public lands, including in Idaho, available to be sold off. On June ...

Idaho’s fourth member of Congress, U.S. Rep. Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho, did not receive a letter and voted to oppose the Public Lands in Public Hands Act, the Utah News Dispatch previously reported.

Sweet Connie Trail is one of the Boise trails left vulnerable in U.S. Sen. Mike Lee’s latest proposal to sell off public lands. In our Reality Check stories, Idaho Statesman journalists seek to ...

Idahoans fought to protect public lands, but vigilance is needed. Learn why public pressure matters and what’s at stake for Idaho’s future.

To his surprise, Patrick Payne had ended up in a group text with Mike Lee. Payne is a conservative Idaho outdoorsman who voted for President Donald Trump. Lee is a Republican senator from Utah.

Ninety-six percent of all registered voters in Idaho believe that public lands should remain in public hands, according to a ...