Congressional Public Lands Score by More Than Just Parks

John Barrasso

Republican · U.S. Senate · Wyoming

Ranked #54 (tied) of 98 scored

Scored under 60%.

Sen. John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, earns an F on the Congressional Public Lands Score. Of the 19 scored Senate votes, Barrasso cast 0 for public lands and 19 against. The two closest: Yea on One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R.1), 50 to 50, and Yea on Overturning Boundary Waters Mining Ban (H.J.Res.140), 50 to 49. Barrasso's seat is not on the 2026 ballot.

Every scored vote: 19 of 19 U.S. Senate votes counted

Anti-lands
Lilly Fish and Wildlife and Parks (En Bloc) S.Res.817
En bloc confirmation of 74 nominees under S.Res.817, including Kevin Lilly as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, the official overseeing the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Lilly, a Texas wealth manager, drew formal opposition from the National Parks Conservation Association, and senators from both parties questioned his lack of land management experience. Confirmed 51-47. Senators who voted Yea confirmed every nominee in the package.
Voted Yea · August 7, 2026 · Roll call 225, 51 to 47
Anti-lands
Pearce BLM Director (En Bloc) S.Res.690
En bloc confirmation of 49 nominees under S.Res.690, including Stevan Pearce as Director of the Bureau of Land Management, the agency managing 245 million acres of public land. As a congressman, Pearce repeatedly backed transferring or selling federal public land. Confirmed 46-43. Senators who voted Yea confirmed every nominee in the package.
Voted Yea · May 18, 2026 · Roll call 125, 46 to 43
Anti-lands
Overturning Boundary Waters Mining Ban H.J.Res.140
CRA resolution overturning the 20-year mining ban on 225,000 acres of the Superior National Forest upstream of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the most visited wilderness in America. Became Public Law 119-85.
Voted Yea · April 16, 2026 · Roll call 84, 50 to 49
Anti-lands
Opening Arctic Refuge to Drilling H.J.Res.131
CRA resolution overturning the 2024 environmental protections for oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, stripping safeguards from the 1.56-million-acre coastal plain calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd
Voted Yea · December 4, 2025 · Roll call 632, 49 to 45
Anti-lands
Overturning Powder River Basin Coal Protections (WY) H.J.Res.130
CRA resolution nullifying the Bureau of Land Management's 2024 Buffalo Field Office resource management plan amendment in Wyoming, which made approximately 413,000 acres of federal coal unavailable for future leasing in the Powder River Basin.
Voted Yea · November 20, 2025 · Roll call 623, 51 to 43
Anti-lands
Opening Western Arctic to Drilling S.J.Res.80
CRA resolution nullifying the 2022 management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, which had closed about half of the 23-million-acre Western Arctic reserve to new oil and gas leasing
Voted Yea · October 30, 2025 · Roll call 599, 52 to 45
Anti-lands
Overturning Central Yukon Protections (AK) H.J.Res.106
CRA resolution nullifying the Bureau of Land Management's Central Yukon resource management plan in Alaska, which designated 21 areas of critical environmental concern covering approximately 3.6 million acres. The resolution removed a land-plan barrier to the Ambler Road, which would cross Gates of the Arctic National Preserve; the administration had restored the road's federal permits three days earlier. Became Public Law 119-50.
Voted Yea · October 9, 2025 · Roll call 560, 50 to 46
Anti-lands
Overturning Miles City BLM Protections (MT) H.J.Res.104
CRA resolution rolling back Bureau of Land Management resource management plans for the Miles City Field Office in Montana, opening public lands to expanded industrial use
Voted Yea · October 8, 2025 · Roll call 549, 52 to 47
Anti-lands
Overturning North Dakota BLM Protections H.J.Res.105
CRA resolution rolling back Bureau of Land Management resource management plans for the North Dakota Field Office, removing protections from public lands across the state
Voted Yea · October 8, 2025 · Roll call 556, 50 to 45
Anti-lands
Boren USDA Under Secretary (En Bloc) S.Res.412
En bloc confirmation of 108 nominees under S.Res.412, including Michael Boren as USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, the official directly overseeing the U.S. Forest Service. Confirmed 51-47. Senators who voted Yea confirmed every nominee in the package.
Voted Yea · October 7, 2025 · Roll call 547, 51 to 47
Anti-lands
Nesvik USFWS Director PN25-35
Confirmed Brian Nesvik as Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency responsible for endangered species protections and the National Wildlife Refuge System
Voted Yea · August 1, 2025 · Roll call 470, 54 to 43
Anti-lands
One Big Beautiful Bill H.R.1
Reconciliation bill mandating four Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain lease sales, five National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska lease sales, a four-million-acre coal leasing mandate, coal royalty rate cuts from 12.5% to 7%, a 250-million-board-foot yearly increase in national forest timber sales through 2034, and rescinding Inflation Reduction Act conservation funding
Voted Yea · July 1, 2025 · Roll call 372, 50 to 50
Anti-lands
Vaden Deputy Agriculture PN12-43
Confirmed Stephen Vaden as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, second in command of the department that houses the U.S. Forest Service
Voted Yea · June 10, 2025 · Roll call 301, 51 to 44
Anti-lands
MacGregor Deputy Interior PN13-10
Confirmed Katharine MacGregor as Deputy Secretary of the Interior, the department's chief operating officer, who led first-term efforts to shrink national monuments and expand drilling on public lands
Voted Yea · May 14, 2025 · Roll call 250, 54 to 40
Anti-lands
Overturning Glen Canyon Safeguards H.J.Res.60
CRA resolution overturning the National Park Service rule limiting off-road vehicle use in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, reopening those routes to motorized use
Voted Yea · May 8, 2025 · Roll call 239, 50 to 43
Anti-lands
Preventing Public Lands Sell-Off S.Amdt.2107
Budget resolution amendment (H.Con.Res.14) to bar the use of proceeds from selling federal public land for deficit reduction, the Senate's recorded vote on public land sales ahead of the reconciliation bill
Voted Nay · April 5, 2025 · Roll call 181, 48 to 51
Anti-lands
Reinstating Fired Land Managers S.Amdt.540
Budget resolution amendment (S.Con.Res.7) creating a reserve fund to reinstate the federal employees fired from the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Forest Service
Voted Nay · February 20, 2025 · Roll call 68, 48 to 52
Anti-lands
Rollins Agriculture Confirmation PN11-12
Confirmed Brooke Rollins as Secretary of Agriculture, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service and 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands
Voted Yea · February 13, 2025 · Roll call 53, 72 to 28
Anti-lands
Burgum Confirmation PN11-3
Confirmed Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Interior, who oversees the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, despite his stated agenda to expand oil and gas extraction on public land
Voted Yea · January 30, 2025 · Roll call 26, 80 to 17

Roll calls and tallies from senate.gov, read October 26, 2026. Which side counts as pro-lands is the scorecard's call on each vote (methodology). Provision ratings: none of these bills has an approved rating yet, so none is named here.

Call Senator Barrasso through the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

Open the full record in the scorecard

Public lands bills Barrasso sponsors or cosponsors

In the 119th Congress, Barrasso sponsors 8 and cosponsors 13 public lands bills.

S.4561 CLOSE THE GAP Act
Sponsor · Introduced May 19, 2026 · Not yet rated
S.4410 Provide for the payment of bonus payments of certain coal leases issued under that Act, amending the Mineral Leasing Act
Sponsor · Introduced April 28, 2026 · Not yet rated
S.2787 Grasslands Grazing Act of 2025
Sponsor · Introduced September 11, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.2262 American Voices in Federal Lands Act
Sponsor · Introduced July 10, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.681 Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2025
Sponsor · Introduced February 20, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.290 Making National Parks Safer Act
Sponsor · Introduced January 29, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.211 Resiliency for Ranching and Natural Conservation Health Act
Sponsor · Introduced January 23, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.140 Wildfire Prevention Act of 2025
Sponsor · Introduced January 16, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.Res.837 Designating the week of August 22 through August 30, 2026, as "National Park Week"
Original cosponsor · Signed on August 6, 2026 · Not yet rated
S.4619 Protect Domestic Oil and Gas Small Business Act of 2026
Original cosponsor · Signed on May 21, 2026 · Not yet rated
S.J.Res.89 A resolution to overturn the Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment
Original cosponsor · Signed on October 8, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.2967 Border Lands Conservation Act
Original cosponsor · Signed on October 2, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.2579 Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2025
Original cosponsor · Signed on July 31, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.Res.180 Designating the week of April 19 through April 27, 2025, as "National Park Week"
Original cosponsor · Signed on April 10, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.1306 Require the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to reissue a final rule removing the gray wolf from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife under the Endangered Species Act of 1973
Original cosponsor · Signed on April 4, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.1061 Forest Service Accountability Act
Original cosponsor · Signed on March 13, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.722 Bureau of Land Management Mineral Spacing Act
Original cosponsor · Signed on February 25, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.J.Res.17 A resolution to overturn the Law Enforcement; Criminal Prohibitions
Original cosponsor · Signed on February 6, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.451 Restoring State Mineral Revenues Act
Original cosponsor · Signed on February 6, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.J.Res.12 A resolution to overturn the Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions
Original cosponsor · Signed on February 4, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.31 Designate the mountain at the Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming, as Devils Tower
Original cosponsor · Signed on January 8, 2025 · Not yet rated

Bills and cosponsors from the congress.gov API, read October 26, 2026. A bill is rated only when a named person approves a rating that quotes its provision; none of these has one yet.

Barrasso's committees

Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Energy; National Parks; Public Lands, Forests, and Mining (Chairman)
Senate Committee on Finance
Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure; Health Care; Taxation and IRS Oversight (Chairman)
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Africa and Global Health Policy; Europe and Regional Security Cooperation; Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy; State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development

Committee seats from unitedstates/congress-legislators, read July 3, 2026.

Public lands in Wyoming

310 federal land units lie in or reach into Wyoming. Parks with a More Than Just Parks guide: Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park.

Listed park guides first, then by size; the largest 40 of 310 are named.

Yellowstone National Park 2,162,532 acres
Grand Teton National Park 275,754 acres
Rock Springs Field Office Bureau of Land Management · 3,606,721 acres
Rawlins Field Office Bureau of Land Management · 3,531,790 acres
Shoshone National Forest 2,439,182 acres
Lander Field Office Bureau of Land Management · 2,388,958 acres
Worland Field Office Bureau of Land Management · 2,099,390 acres
Yellowstone Proposed or Recommended Wilderness Area 1,928,224 acres
Bridger National Forest 1,734,333 acres
Teton National Forest 1,660,590 acres
Kemmerer Field Office Bureau of Land Management · 1,421,062 acres
Casper Field Office Bureau of Land Management · 1,361,339 acres
Wyoming Range Withdrawal Area Special Designated Area Forest Service · 1,219,651 acres
Bighorn National Forest 1,105,121 acres
Cody Field Office Bureau of Land Management · 1,090,720 acres
Medicine Bow National Forest 1,084,367 acres
Pinedale Field Office Bureau of Land Management · 925,688 acres
Buffalo Field Office Bureau of Land Management · 780,175 acres
Usbr Bureau of Reclamation · 735,338 acres
Washakie Wilderness 693,933 acres
Teton Wilderness 584,733 acres
Thunder Basin National Grassland 552,987 acres
Bridger Wilderness 426,751 acres
North Absaroka Wilderness 346,320 acres
Targhee National Forest 331,676 acres
Grayback Ridge Roadless Area 301,148 acres
Newcastle Field Office Bureau of Land Management · 288,104 acres
Gros Ventre Wilderness 286,236 acres
Salt River Range Roadless Area 241,504 acres
Fitzpatrick Wilderness 198,906 acres
Cloud Peak Wilderness 191,914 acres
Black Hills National Forest 176,357 acres
Lake Alice - Commissary Ridge Roadless Area 166,707 acres
Spread Creek - Gros Ventre River Roadless Area 166,097 acres
Grand Teton Proposed or Recommended Wilderness Area 160,896 acres
South Pass Historical Landscape Area of Critical Environmental Concern Bureau of Land Management · 158,545 acres
West Slope Winds Roadless Area 143,251 acres
Palisades Wilderness Study Area 134,434 acres
Little Bighorn Roadless Area 133,863 acres
Jedediah Smith Wilderness 123,851 acres

Drilling, mining and logging on record in Wyoming: 1,934 oil and gas leases (3,615,974 acres); 66 coal leases (342,509 acres).

Threatened public lands in Wyoming

Bear Lodge Rare Earth Project (Black Hills National Forest) Developing
Caribou-Targhee National Forest (Grand Targhee Expansion) Developing
Adobe Town WSA
Wyoming Sage-Grouse Core Areas Developing
Wyoming 2026 Oil & Gas Lease Sales Developing
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Red Desert (Wyoming BLM)

Federal land units from PAD-US, matched to the state's districts in the More Than Just Parks record, refreshed October 20, 2026; acres are each unit's full size, and units overlap, so they are not added up. Easements on private land are left out. Fires from NIFC; mining claims, leases and timber sales from BLM and Forest Service records; read October 26, 2026.

Who funds Barrasso on lands issues

PACs and other committees gave Barrasso's campaign $453,000 in the 2025-26 cycle. Across the 4 cycles on record, oil, gas, mining and timber PACs gave $450,363, and conservation PACs gave $1,000.

Cycle	All PACs and committees	Oil and gas	Mining and coal	Timber	Conservation
2019-20	$415,750	$36,000	$10,000	$1,000	none
2021-22	$636,800	$67,000	$13,500	$5,000	none
2023-24	$2,962,044	$188,863	$41,000	$18,500	$1,000
2025-26	$453,000	$38,500	$28,500	$2,500	none

Itemized contributions from committees to the candidate (FEC S6WY00068), net of refunds, read October 19, 2026. Industry is the giving PAC's industry in the More Than Just Parks record. A contribution says who gave, not why anyone voted as they did.

How Barrasso compares

The median senator scores 5%. Barrasso scores 0% and ranks #54 (tied) of 98.

More from Wyoming

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What to ask Barrasso

Washington office: 307 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Phone (202) 224-6441. Write to Barrasso · Official site

From Barrasso's own record:

Why did you vote Yea on Lilly Fish and Wildlife and Parks (En Bloc) (S.Res.817)?
Why did you vote Yea on Pearce BLM Director (En Bloc) (S.Res.690)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning Boundary Waters Mining Ban (H.J.Res.140)?
Why did you vote Yea on Opening Arctic Refuge to Drilling (H.J.Res.131)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning Powder River Basin Coal Protections (WY) (H.J.Res.130)?
Why did you vote Yea on Opening Western Arctic to Drilling (S.J.Res.80)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning Central Yukon Protections (AK) (H.J.Res.106)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning Miles City BLM Protections (MT) (H.J.Res.104)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning North Dakota BLM Protections (H.J.Res.105)?
Why did you vote Yea on Boren USDA Under Secretary (En Bloc) (S.Res.412)?
Why did you vote Yea on Nesvik USFWS Director (PN25-35)?
Why did you vote Yea on One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R.1)?
Why did you vote Yea on Vaden Deputy Agriculture (PN12-43)?
Why did you vote Yea on MacGregor Deputy Interior (PN13-10)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning Glen Canyon Safeguards (H.J.Res.60)?
Why did you vote Nay on Preventing Public Lands Sell-Off (S.Amdt.2107)?
Why did you vote Nay on Reinstating Fired Land Managers (S.Amdt.540)?
Why did you vote Yea on Rollins Agriculture Confirmation (PN11-12)?
Why did you vote Yea on Burgum Confirmation (PN11-3)?

Offices and phones from the Senate and House member feeds and unitedstates/congress-legislators, checked October 22, 2026.

Questions people ask

How did John Barrasso vote on One Big Beautiful Bill?

John Barrasso voted Yea on One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R.1) on July 1, 2025. The Senate vote was 50 to 50, and the scorecard counts Nay as the vote for public lands.

Is John Barrasso up for election in 2026?

No. John Barrasso's Senate seat from Wyoming is not on the 2026 ballot. Barrasso's grade on the 19 scored Senate votes so far is an F.

What public lands are in Wyoming?

310 federal land units lie in or reach into Wyoming. The largest are Rock Springs Field Office (3,606,721 acres), Rawlins Field Office (3,531,790 acres) and Shoshone National Forest (2,439,182 acres).