"Will the administration’s ongoing push to open federal lands for housing development face the same public backlash that Sen. Mike Lee triggered?"
"Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s recent attempt to sell off millions of acres of federal public land under the guise of combatting America’s housing crunch ultimately gave rise to a slogan among hunters, anglers and other public land enthusiasts: “Not. One. Acre.”
The message couldn’t have been clearer: there was no amount of tinkering Lee could do to his proposal that would have made it palatable to the American public. Even a single acre on the chopping block was a nonstarter.
When Lee finally pulled his proposal from President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful” budget bill, public land advocates of all political stripes breathed a collective sigh of relief. On a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, Rogan and Ryan Callaghan, director of conservation at MeatEater, declared Lee’s effort “dead,” although Callaghan warned that the anti-federal land movement was certain to take another run at chipping away at the federal estate.
“‘Not one acre’ was the best motto,” Rogan said."
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