{"id":11530,"date":"2026-01-22T12:14:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=11530"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:15:39","slug":"public-lands-idaho-constitutional-amendment-proposed-by-state-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=11530","title":{"rendered":"Public Lands – Idaho constitutional amendment proposed by state senator"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/i>\u00a0Idaho state Sen. Ben Adams, R-Nampa, introduces a proposed amendment to the Idaho Constitution that prevents the state from selling future public lands it obtains from the federal government. (Clark Corbin\/Idaho Capital Sun)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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An Idaho state senator on Wednesday introduced a proposal to amend the state constitution to protect public lands acquired by the state from the federal government.<\/div>\n
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Sen. Ben Adams, R-Nampa<\/a>, first announced\u00a0his proposal in August<\/a>, well ahead of the 2026 legislative session that began\u00a0this month, the Idaho Capital Sun previously reported. He\u00a0unveiled the draft text of the amendment<\/a>\u00a0later that month.<\/p>\n

Adams told the Senate State Affairs Committee on Wednesday that since unveiling his proposal, he\u2019s had conversations with residents and industry leaders all over the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted feedback. I wanted a lot of feedback, because it deals with a very personal matter for every Idahoan, and that is our public land here in Idaho,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n

He said he slightly changed the text from his August proposal, but \u201cthe intent did not change.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0READ MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Idaho state Sen. Ben Adams, R-Nampa, introduces a proposed amendment to the Idaho Constitution that prevents the state from selling future public lands it obtains from the federal government. (Clark Corbin\/Idaho Capital Sun) An Idaho state senator on Wednesday introduced a proposal to amend the state constitution to protect public lands acquired by the state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-public-lands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11531,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530\/revisions\/11531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}