Public lands, private profits: Inside the Trump plan to offload federal land

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By Lois ParshleyApr 15, 2025, 4:45 am94 pts
The Trump administration is poised to begin offloading public land, achieving a long-held conservative goal of reducing the government’s footprint in the West. Federal agencies manage around 640 million acres, or about 28 percent of the nation’s land, an invaluable resource Interior Secretary Doug Burgum…

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