Peter Walker on Facebook:

During the Republican National Convention in July, many were appalled to see that language supporting the transfer (a.k.a. giveaway, theft… etc.) of federal public lands was included in the official party platform. Many of us were uncertain whether this was serious. The answer appears to be yes. On its very first day, the new 115th Congress voted in favor of legislation by Utah Representative Rob Bishop to promote the transfer of public lands.

He posted the link to a story by Rich Landers at the [Spokane] Spokesman-Review:

The 115th Congress got off to an eye-opening start on Tuesday, looking to reduce outside ethics oversight and then voting in favor of facilitating transfers of some