Wyoming Governor explains threat to sell Grand Teton land

Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal wants the U.S. Interior Department to agree to exchange state-owned land inside the famous national park for federal land elsewhere in the state to help finance public education.

Millions of acres in the western U.S. are owned by states, which in turn lease them to cattle ranchers to generate revenue for schools. These “school sections,” as the federal Bureau of Land Management calls them, were set aside by acts of Congress to encourage K-12 and college education.

By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline Staff Writer

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