House Resources Chairman Lawerence Denney, R-Midvale, is pitching his two federal lands transfer measures to the Senate State Affairs Committee this afternoon. The measures, he said, “make the historic and legal case for the transfer of title of the public lands within the boundaries of the state of Idaho from the federal government to the state of Idaho.”

He said, “The bigger policy issue before us is the management and the ownership of the lands within our boundaries. … We’re not proposing to clear-cut the entire forest, but to manage for multiple use and sustained yield.”