Mission 21 · Ouray National Wildlife Refuge · UT · 2026

Vernal oil and gas amendment

The Bureau of Land Management has a decision open here and is taking comments on it. Ouray National Wildlife Refuge, Utah.

The agency files it as “Notice of Intent To Amend the Vernal Resource Management Plan for Oil and Gas Leasing and Prepare an Associated Environmental Assessment, Utah”

Record openthe agency stopped taking comments October 5 · what you find still counts

Places to check

People it would take

Said they’ll go

Photographs filed

Opened

September 7

Window closed

October 5

Evidence

Nothing filed yet.

No photograph has been filed on this mission yet. The first one lands here with its fingerprint, where its location came from, and how far inside the agency’s own boundary it was taken. The places to check are below.

The objective

What we are testing.

Ouray National Wildlife RefugeSprings and water

The agency has published no document here with a sentence a photograph could settle, only a notice. The line below is read from that notice.

At Ouray National Wildlife Refuge, photograph the refuge water itself: the ponds and wetland pools, where water enters and leaves them, how full they are right now, and any birds or animals using them. Date every shot.

0 of 6 going · nobody lives near it yetWhat to look for, and how to file it

The paperwork

Everything else the document says about the ground.

1 more sentence, in the agency’s own words, with where each one sits in the document. Any of them is fair game for a photograph.

“encompasses less than 5,200 acres of federal minerals managed by the BLM”
Under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATIONWhere: Ouray National Wildlife Refuge, Uintah County, Utah

The decision

Who is deciding, and when.

Deciding: Bureau of Land Management
Kind of decision: Notice
The agency’s title: Notice of Intent To Amend the Vernal Resource Management Plan for Oil and Gas Leasing and Prepare an Associated Environmental Assessment, Utah
Published: September 3
Comments closed: October 5
The notice: The agency’s own page

Read the whole decision, and write to the agency

Status

Record open.

The window shut October 5. Evidence still counts: it backs the objections from people who did comment, goes to the lawyers, and outlives the decision.

What you can do

Join the Corps Write to the agency

More Than Just Parks doesn’t direct where you go or what you do. Terms.

Loading the map

The agency has not published a map we can check of the exact patches this covers, so the map draws the whole place.

How to record it so it counts

Springs and water

The whole checklist, with the phone settings, is in the field guide.

Before you go

Public land only. Plenty of land inside a national forest or park boundary is privately owned, and that is not yours to walk on. A gate or a closure sign means stop. Check the rules for the specific place you are going, because they differ.
Don’t touch survey stakes, flagging, equipment or anything a crew left. Photograph it; leave it.
Don’t approach crews, contractors or agency staff about the project. Don’t interfere with any operation.
Wildlife at a distance. No drones in wilderness or anywhere they’re prohibited. Stay off closed roads and trails.
If you’re not sure, don’t. Weather, terrain, water, fire and people are your call, and yours alone.

Working this fight for a group?

The evidence desk for this mission is at corps/desk/21. One grant per fight, every open logged, members appear as numbers. Write to ask@morethanjustparks.com and say which fight and why.