Despite vigorous opposition from Congressional Democrats and conservation groups, the House Natural Resource Committee early yesterday morning approved a budget bill that includes a provision to sell thousands of acres of federal land in Nevada and Utah.⁠ ⁠ The amendment, offered by Republicans Mark Amodei of Nevada and Celeste Maloy of Utah, would sell about 11,000 acres of BLM and Forest Service land in Utah and potentially hundreds of thousands of acres in Nevada. The land-sale amendment was offered at nearly midnight in a marathon committee meeting, in which Democrats offered some 140 amendments to soften some of the provisions of the budget bill. Each of those amendments was voted down by the Republican majority, which declined to debate any of the provisions.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in profile for the full story 🔗⁠ ⁠ #conservation #mypubliclands #publicland #habitat #forestservice #utah #nevada #outdoors #nature #outdoorlife⁠ 📷: mypubliclands⁠ Story by: aemckean