Colorado Wildlife Federation The Senate’s version of the budget bill by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources places at risk of sale a portion of federally managed public lands -managed by Bureau of Land Management and by the US Forest Service. As you know this type of provision that would have impacted Nevada and Utah was eliminated from the House bill before the bill passed. This Senate Committee proposal would impact public lands in Colorado, Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. The stated purpose for the public land sales is local housing and the Secretary of the Interior would be directed to sell at fair market value “not less than 0.50 percent or more than 0.75 percent” of BLM lands and US Forest Service lands from these states. Priorities for disposal are “adjacent to existing developed areas, have access to existing infrastructure, are suitable for residential housing, reduce checkerboard land patterns, or are isolated tracts inefficient to manage.” This draft must be rejected by the Senate !!!