A Pale Echo of the Sagebrush Rebellion
Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy 2025-07-02
Summary:
Republican Utah Senator Lee’s effort to sell significant amounts of federal land through the reconciliation bill is dead – he withdrew his proposal last week. I want to contrast the modern efforts at privatization with another era of calls for transfer of federal lands, the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s. Like Senator Lee’s effort, as …