A congressional budget proposal that requires the federal government to sell or trade over 500,000 acres of public land in Utah and Nevada is moving to its next step: a Rules Committee meeting at 1 a.m. tomorrow morning.⁠ ⁠ The timing of the meeting, in which members will vote on the conformity of the budget with House rules, confirms to critics that Republican lawmakers want to shield their vote from public scrutiny. The last-minute introduction of the land-sales amendment to the House Natural Resources budget mark-up, at about 11 p.m. after 14 hours of meetings on May 6, was lambasted as a “dark-of-night” procedure by critics who claim the action could create a destabilizing precedent leading to wholesale loss of federal public land.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in profile for the full story 🔗⁠ ⁠ #conservation #mypubliclands #publicland #habitat #forestservice #utah #nevada #outdoors #nature #outdoorlife⁠ Story by: aemckean