What the proposal said, and what the decision did

No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.

The BLM's Las Vegas Field Office is proposing to sell its reversionary interest in a 480-acre parcel in Jean, Nevada to the State of Nevada for $50.6 million. The land was originally patented under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act, meaning it was set aside for public benefit, but this sale would allow the State to repurpose it for commercial development and private leases. It's a direct, non-competitive sale under FLPMA, so there's no public bidding process.

In the agency’s own words

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Las Vegas Field Office (LVFO) has determined that the reversionary interest held by the United States in a 480-acre parcel of land previously patented under the Recreation and Public Purposes (R&PP) Act in Jean, Nevada, is acceptable for direct sale (without competition) to the State of Nevada (State), pursuant to section 203 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended (FLPMA). Selling the reversionary interest would allow the State to repurpose the lands for economic development through the construction of commercial facilities and potential future lease…

Federal Register 2026-04724 ↗

The groups on this fight

4 groups predicted likely to care in Nevada

Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Nevada, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

• Center for Biological Diversity

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada: Sued the Bureau of Land Management in March 2024 for failing to produce the legally required management plan for Gold Butte National Monument.

• Conservation Lands Foundation

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, Nevada: Backed the Honor Avi Kwa Ame designation campaign alongside the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe and keeps the monument in its National Conservation Lands defense portfolio.

• Friends of Nevada Wilderness

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Gold Butte National Monument, Nevada: Ran the petition campaign pressing Nevada officials to pull Gold Butte from the Interior Department's monument review and has defended the monument since the designation fight, which drew over 90,000 supportive comments.

• Tahoe Rim Trail Association

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Nevada: Nevada is one of the 2 states they work in.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

Who signs it

The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.

The ground

The window has closed, so there’s no watch to set on it here.

The photograph on this page: Greater sage-grouse displaying on a lek in sagebrush country. It’s the country this decision sits in, not the site itself. More Than Just Parks.

In court on this ground

This fight isn’t bound to a land unit in PLAN’s record yet, so there are no court cases to show for its ground.

Who holds the vote

PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.