The good news is that it was reported on Tuesday, July 1, that Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s plan to sell hundreds of thousands of acres of public land across Western states (in his much reduced Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee’s budget reconciliation bill) was axed from the Senate version of the Republican tax and spending bill amid bipartisan backlash.

The bad news is that the United States' public lands are still being coveted by the real estate, mining, drilling and logging industries. It appears that the Trump administration, which continues to cut parks and forests’ funding, only sees their resources as potential money makers, not for the recreation opportunities or the wildlife preserves they provide.

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