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

Republicans have proposed selling millions of acres of public land to build housing, but it won't help the Northeast.

The Wilderness Society made an interactive map, showing both the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service lands the bill makes eligible for sale.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) owns close to 70 percent of the land in Nevada, over 40 percent of the land in Utah, and roughly a quarter of the land in Idaho, Oregon, Alaska, and Wyoming.