Many residents of the Rocky Mountain West have been up in arms lately over the President's plan to sell off public lands. Their new hero may be an unlikely one: Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig, who said he won't let the plan make it through his Senate subcommittee.

Craig, who controls the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, believes selling public lands is bad policy. His spokesman told a reporter, "I don't really see it going anywhere in Congress."

Environmentalists are up in arms over a proposal in the House of Representatives that could spur the biggest sell-off of public lands – including territory in national parks and wildlife refuges – in modern American history. The goal? To help pay down the national deficit.