Although the Forest Service did add restrictions to protect some of its exchanged parcels following public concerns, objectors said the agency didn’t go far enough.
In the 19th century, the federal government, looking to boost railway construction across the relatively undeveloped West, offered railroad companies an incentive: Expand the rail lines and receive alternating sections
A billionaire landowner is proposing a land transfer with the federal government that would consolidate hundreds of thousands of Elko County acres, concerning public land users.