And in the fall, the Forest Service sent a cease-and-desist letter accusing a company that Boren controlled of building an unauthorized cabin on National Forest land.

The Trump administration will take public comments on ending protections for more than 44 million acres of roadless national ...

Lee’s original proposal posed the sale of up to 3.3 million acres over the next five years of Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service land across 11 Western states to build housing.