national conservation areas

The Biden administration is moving to let conservationists lease government land for restoration. It's part of an effort to make conservation an “equal” to other uses of public lands such as drilling and livestock grazing.

The exchange is for low-revenue generating state land within the monument for developable federal land in 21 counties across the state.

The School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration has about 130,000 acres in Bears Ears National Monument.

Conservationists from around the country are opposing congressional legislation to allow a four-lane highway through a desert tortoise preserve in…