Mike Lee Is Back Again To Sell Your Lands

Mike Lee rewrote his land sale bill. It’s still stealing over a million acres of your land.

Whiplash anyone?

Mike Lee, a man so consumed by his hatred for public lands he tried to sell them out from under the American people without so much as a committee vote, is back with a slightly smaller dagger. And his “new” proposal? It’s the same rancid scheme, sprayed with Febreze. A tactical retreat, not a change of heart. The goal is still the same: liquidate the American landscape and call it reform.

Gone is the Forest Service land. But his revised plan still forces the Bureau of Land Management to auction off up to 1.2 million acres of public land in 11 Western states. That’s your land. And this time, he’s got a shiny new excuse: housing.

This isn’t about homes for working families. This is about cracking open the vault for developers, speculators, and anyone eager to turn sagebrush into subdivisions.

Lee wants you to believe this is reasonable now. That it’s “targeted.” That he’s “listening.” But here’s the truth:

This is still the largest proposed public land sell-off in modern U.S. history.

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A Wolf in Realtor’s Clothing

Lee’s pretending this is about affordability, that selling BLM land near cities is the key to housing relief. But nothing in this bill guarantees affordable homes. There’s no mandate for prices. No rules about ownership. Just “competitive sales” to whoever can pay market value. In other words, a feeding frenzy for developers and a blank check to pave over everything from future recreation areas to wilderness buffers near Arches and Zion.

The man even had the gall to tweet that he’s working with the Trump administration to ensure “this land must go to American families.” As if selling off national heritage to the highest bidder is a patriotic act.

Mike Lee isn’t fighting for families. He’s fighting for a future where land that belongs to everyone gets parceled off to anyone rich enough to write a check.

Let’s Talk About What This Really Is

This is Mike Lee, lifelong public lands traitor, trying to put lipstick on the same pig. He’s been obsessed with dismantling our shared inheritance for years. He didn’t back off because he saw the light, he backed off because he got slapped down by the Senate Parliamentarian and dragged by the public for being the unrepentant thief that he is.

So now he’s trying again. Quietly. Systematically. With just enough new language to make it sound legitimate.

But the core of the plan hasn’t changed:
Take what belongs to the American people and sell it.
Strip it. Gentrify it. Fence it off. Monetize the last wild places.
Call it “freedom.”

And let’s be honest: if he gets even a sliver of this passed, the rest will follow. He’ll be back for the Forest Service. Back for more BLM land. Back for the parks, the trailheads, the canyons, the rivers. That’s the plan.

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This Is Still an Emergency

Let’s not get comfortable because the first version was blocked. The new bill still requires the sale of up to 1.2 million acres. Still targets land within five miles of population centers, land that’s often packed with prized recreation access, cultural resources, and wildlife corridors. Still incentivizes states to hand over nominations.

And still makes Mike Lee the architect of a smash-and-grab on America’s last remaining open space.

What We Do Now

This fight isn’t over. Not by a long shot.

We need to contact these senators and make it clear: any sale of public lands, in any form, is unacceptable.

• Steve Daines (R-MT) (email)

• Tim Sheehy (R-MT) (email)

• Mike Crapo (R-ID) (email)

• Jim Risch (R-ID) (email)

We need to keep the pressure on. Raise hell. Show them that the backlash last time wasn’t a fluke, it was the beginning of something much bigger.

Because this isn’t just about one bad bill. It’s about defending the very idea that some places should never be for sale.

And Mike Lee? He’s made it perfectly clear where he stands.

Let’s show him where we stand too.

—Jim