UPDATE: This story has been updated to include a newer version of the map released Tuesday morning.

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — What’s for sale in Nevada? About 33.5 million acres of federal land if the Senate moves forward with a plan to amend the “one big, beautiful bill.”

A map showing lands eligible for sale across the West includes Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service land that could be on the auction block as Republicans look for ways to finance the extension of tax cuts that went into place during President Donald Trump’s first term.

Land skirting the Las Vegas valley to the east, and much more along the Interstate 15 corridor running through Southern Nevada, could be the most attractive parcels available here.

A screen shot of a map showing land near the Las Vegas valley that could be part of a Republican effort to sell public lands.

Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee is picking up where a failed attempt by Nevada Republican Rep. Mark Amodei failed in the U.S. House, which passed the reconciliation funding bill after chopping his public land sale amendment.

Estimates that at least 2.2 million acres in Nevada could be sold came into focus with the release of a map from The Wilderness Society. The organization received a leaked version of the legislation on Saturday. Presumably, the federal government would stop when they get to the maximum stated in Lee’s bill — 0.75% of all federal land in Nevada, or 3.3 million acres.

On Tuesday morning, the Sierra Club Toiyabe Chapter distributed an updated version of the map. The image below shows the entire state, plus areas of U.S. Forest Service land in California and BLM land in Utah.

Olivia Tanager, executive director for the Sierra Club’s Toiyabe Chapter, said this change expanded the pool of available lands in the West from 120 million acres to 258 million acres. That includes opening up approximately 33,580,624 acres in Nevada, according to the Wilderness Society.

“After public outcry stopped their original land grab, Senator Lee and his allies came back for a second helping, and then expanded their scheme even further to make sure their corporate developer buddies have over 250 million acres of land across the Western United States to pick from,” Tanager said.

“The Toiyabe Chapter has always upheld that public lands cannot solve our housing crisis. To address the housing crisis, we need real corporate accountability, not corporate handouts,” Tanager said. “We’ve been holding town halls across Nevada, and the message is loud and clear: Nevadans want our public lands preserved, not parceled off to billionaires.”

In the Las Vegas area, land up and down the I-15 corridor holds promising value for development, with a second commercial airport expected to be developed southeast of Las Vegas, and expanding industrial development already in progress northeast of the valley. Large areas are also listed near rural Moapa Valley, extending east to Mesquite and north to Lincoln County.

Within the Las Vegas valley, there are several areas mapped that could attract buyers:

Land in the southwest valley near Mountain’s Edge and Southern Highlands.
A parcel at the foot of the Sheep Mountains in the far north valley.
Scattered parcels within developed areas of the southwest valley.

Just outside the valley, the map shows areas behind Frenchman Mountain, along with areas of Sunrise Mountain. To the northeast, a parcel along U.S. 95 between Las Vegas and Indian Springs is shown. Additionally, very large areas are shown beyond Indian Springs and along SR160 in the Pahrump area.

Two other concentrations of land around the state appeared in the Tonopah region and in Mineral County. U.S. Forest Service land in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest also appeared on the map in central Nevada. Around Reno and Carson City, Forest Service land in the Mt. Rose area and the hills northwest of Reno were included.

(Editor’s note: the map below was superceded by the map above provided by the Sierra Club.)

BLM land appeared in orange on the map; Forest Service land was in green.

Democratic Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto criticized information she had about the prospective land sale proposals, saying they were impractical in meeting needs for affordable housing. She said the land was in the middle of the desert. But the maps released since then show property much closer to established development.

Robert Orlando, a Henderson resident, said he moved this year to a condo near the Whitney Mesa, near one of the sites listed for land sale.

“I’m kind of against it,” he said. “You know, this is a nice area to relax in.”

The six acres of the Whitney Mesa Nature Preserve are not on the chopping block, but a large lot north of the preserve appears to be prepping for sale. The map indicates the BLM land is somewhere between the Southeast Career Technical Academy and Stephanie Lynn Craig Park.

“Well, it is a congested neighborhood,” Orlando said. “I think the residents of the neighborhood need an area where they can just kind of unwind.”

Orlando said if the lot is set to be sold, he wants to see fewer apartments in the area, more single-family residences.

“Something with a little acreage and just not all congested,” he said.

The Toiyabe Chapter has been hosting town hall meetings about the plan to sell public lands. The next one is scheduled Wednesday, June 18, at 5 p.m. at the Summerlin Library. The program will be from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Additional town hall meetings are scheduled at the West Las Vegas Library at 10:30 a.m. on June 21, the Centennial Hills Library at 3 p.m. on June 22, and a virtual meeting on June 23 at 6 p.m.: https://tinyurl.com/PUBLICLANDSVIRTUAL

8 News Now reached out to the Nevada Conservation League for comment and did not receive a statement before the web story deadline.