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| https://zinke.house.gov/media/press-releases/conservation-champion-steve-rinella-calls-zinkes-actions-heroic | Conservation Champion Steve Rinella Calls Zinke’s Actions Heroic | 2025-06-25 | 2025 | 2025-06 | Republican | House | MT | Ryan K. Zinke | Z000018 | zinke.house.gov | zinke | https://zinke.house.gov/media/press-releases | scraper | Washington, D.C. – Today, Steve Rinella published an article in The Free Press defending public lands and opposing any public land sales in the “Big Beautiful Bill.” Included in the article is direct praise for Western Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke and his fight to keep public lands in public hands. “Last month, a provision was inserted into the House’s version of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill mandating that the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service sell a half-million acres of public land in Nevada and Utah. That proposal was eventually removed (heroically, in my view) thanks to Ryan Zinke, a second-term Republican congressman from Montana, who campaigned on a promise to keep ‘public lands in public hands.’” Read Rinella’s full article here. Steve Rinella is a popular podcaster, conservationist, outdoorsman, and business owner. He is the founder of MeatEater, Inc., and outdoor lifestyle brand located in Bozeman, MT. Alongside Zinke, Rinella also recently received the James D. Range Conservation Award, the top honor for conservation given by the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. Congressman Zinke has been the loudest voice protecting public lands in Congress and has been solid in his staunch opposition to any large-scale public land sales being included in the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” He is also the author and sponsor of the “Public Lands in Public Hands Act,” originally introduced in the 118th Congress and reintroduced in the 119th Congress, which would ban the sale of most public lands and require congressional approval for disposal of publicly accessible federal land tracts over 300 acres and for public land tracts over 5 acres if accessible via a public waterway. Congressman Zinke is the co-chair and co-founder of the Public Lands Caucus. Read more about Congressman Zinke’s success stripping public land sales out of the House reconciliation bill here. Read more about Congressman Zinke’s Public Lands in Public Hands Acthere. Read more about the Public Lands Caucus here. ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-07T01:08:28Z |