On Monday, the Center for American Progress released a report summarizing a series of administration actions that are slowly chipping away at public lands, and the ramifications are almost as large as an earlier Congressional proposal to allow certain public lands to be sold. “Even after Americans loudly rejected attempts to sell off public lands, the Trump administration is rolling forward with actions to transfer control of massive amounts of public lands for corporate profits,” said Drew McConville, Center for American Progress senior fellow and co-author of the report. Only two other states have more: Idaho with 9.3 million acres and Alaska. In total, resource extraction industries would be allowed to exploit more than 175 million acres of public lands nationwide if all the Trump administration proposals go through, according to the report. “At rock-bottom prices, extractive corporations can scoop up long-term leases or mining claims that encumber public lands for many decades.