Two days after more than 2,000 public land advocates rallied at the Idaho Statehouse, House lawmakers killed a resolution that would have provided more information on the location and accessibility of state lands.
The resolution, which was sponsored by House Minority Leader Mat Erpelding, D-Boise, initially was approved on a 43-26 vote Monday morning.
In a fairly uncommon move, Rep. Caroline Nilsson Troy, R-Genesee, subsequently asked to reconsider the measure. Upon reconsideration later that afternoon, Nilsson Troy and 20 other lawmakers switched their aye votes and killed the bill.
The resolution asked the Idaho Department of Lands to produce an annual report detailing how state endowment lands are managed and highlighting the size, location and accessibility or inaccessibility of each parcel of state land.