Oppose National Forests and Grasslands in Texas

What the proposal said, and what the decision did

No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.

The USDA Forest Service is revising its environmental review process for deciding which lands in the National Forests and Grasslands in Texas could be opened to future oil and gas leasing. The EIS will identify available parcels, set any protective stipulations, and determine if changes to the 1996 forest management plan are needed. This affects conservation, recreation, and wildlife values across Texas's national forest system, and it's now being led by a higher-level official than originally planned.

In the agency’s own words

A previous notice for this project was published in 2019 (84 FR 44843) when the National Forests and Grasslands in Texas (NFGT) was also preparing for forest plan revision; however, the need for the project, expected relationship to the forest plan, and responsible official have changed since that publication. This notice is revising the previous Notice of Intent to announce that the USDA Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) Under Secretary proposes to prepare the EIS for Oil and Gas Leasing Availability and issue the project decision. The proposed action and alternatives will identify lands that would be made…

Federal Register 2026-07974 ↗

The groups on this fight

4 groups predicted likely to care in Texas

Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Texas, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

• Big Bend Conservancy

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Big Bend National Park, Texas: A nonprofit partner of Big Bend National Park.

• Friends of Balcones Canyonlands NWR

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Texas: They work only in Texas.

• National Parks Conservation Association

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Padre Island National Seashore, Texas: Plaintiff in the challenge to the blanket Gulf oil and gas endangered species exemption, naming Padre Island among the threatened parks.

• Southern Environmental Law Center

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Padre Island National Seashore, Texas: Filed the D.C. Circuit challenge to the Gulf-wide exemption for the plaintiff coalition.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

Who signs it

The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.

The ground

The window has closed, so there’s no watch to set on it here.

In court on this ground

This fight isn’t bound to a land unit in PLAN’s record yet, so there are no court cases to show for its ground.

Who holds the vote

PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.