Stop Direct Sale of Public Lands in Converse County

The groups on this fight

4 groups work Wyoming

By footprint, from the same match the STAND matchmaker runs; none is linked to this decision in our record yet. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

• Sierra Club

  Works Wyoming: its Wyoming Chapter mobilized public comments ahead of the December 18, 2025 deadline against the administration's rollback of Red Desert ACEC protections in the Rock Springs RMP amendment..

• Western Watersheds Project

  Works Wyoming: co-plaintiff in the federal appeal challenging BLM's plan to cut the Adobe Town herd management area roughly in half as part of the largest wild horse removal ever attempted in the Wyoming checkerboard..

• Wyoming Outdoor Council

  Works Wyoming: leading opposition to BLM's 2025 reopening of the just-finalized Rock Springs RMP, with program director Alec Underwood arguing the Golden Triangle and Big Sandy Foothills are too special to lease and develop..

• Wyoming Wilderness Association

  Works Wyoming: organized citizen outings at Skull Rim to build opposition to BLM lease parcels around Adobe Town Rim and has pressed the agency to shrink lease sales touching the WSA and surrounding lands with wilderness characteristics..

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

The BLM is proposing to sell 800 acres of public land in Converse County, Wyoming across nine parcels to a private buyer named Kristi Bohlander for at least $540,000. The agency justifies the sale by citing isolated parcel locations surrounded by private property and a lack of public access, which it says makes management impractical. If approved, these parcels would permanently leave public ownership under authority of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes a non-competitive (direct) sale of nine parcels of BLM-managed public lands in Wyoming to resolve some of the land jurisdiction patterns found in the Casper Field Office as well as the uneconomic management of these public lands due to private property surrounding the isolated parcels and lack of public access. The parcels, located in Converse County, contain an aggregate of 800 acres and, if approved, would be sold to Kristi Bohlander. The sale would be subject to the applicable provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA), as amended, and…

Federal Register 2026-07117 ↗

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