Oppose locking up Pinon Canyon public lands for 15 more years
Application for Withdrawal Extension for Fort Carson and Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site and Opportunity for Public Meeting; Colorado
Bureau of Land Management· Fort Carson, Pinon Canyon Maneuver SiteFederal Register 2026-09638 ↗
The groups on this fight
4 groups work Colorado
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.
- Center for Biological Diversity
Works Colorado: led the coalition suit against the Uinta Basin Railway, whose oil trains would run the river corridors below the monument.
- Rocky Mountain Wild
Works Colorado: joined the formal challenge to the January 2026 replacement lease sale and previously sued BLM over the Roan Plateau leases.
- San Juan Citizens Alliance
Works Colorado: shaped the 2010 management plan, has fought oil and gas leasing decisions inside the monument for two decades, mobilized against the 2017 monument review, and states it continues to defend CANM..
- WildEarth Guardians
Works Colorado: named petitioner against the Uinta Basin Railway over habitat destruction in the basin.
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The Army wants to extend its control over Colorado public lands, blocking grazing, recreation, and public access until 2041.
What’s at risk
Fort Carson and Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site in Colorado would remain closed to grazing, recreation, and other public uses for another 15 years. Ranchers, wildlife advocates, and outdoor users who depend on this land would lose access through at least 2041.
If this goes through
The military withdrawal is extended to 2041, keeping these Colorado public lands off-limits to grazing, hiking, and other uses for a generation with another extension possible after that.
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
4 holes in the agency’s own analysis
What the public could have raised, from the agency’s own document
- I oppose this action as proposed, and I ask the agency to weigh the specific harms below.
- The Army is asking to extend its military withdrawal of Fort Carson and Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site for another 15 years, keeping this Colorado public land off-limits to grazing, recreation, and other uses through at least 2041.
- Extending this withdrawal blocks grazing rights and public recreation access at Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, which are legitimate uses of public land that should not be locked out for another 15 years.
- Wildlife habitat and any wilderness values at Fort Carson and Pinon Canyon cannot be properly protected or managed for conservation when the land is held under an extended military withdrawal.
- The public has only a 90-day window to comment before a decision is made on locking up these Colorado public lands for another 15 years, which is not enough time for meaningful review of long-term impacts.
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- Say something only you can say. The law requires the agency to consider and respond to substantive comments, and specifics are what make a comment substantive.
In the agency’s own words
The Department of the Army (Army) has filed an application requesting that the Secretary of the Interior extend the Fort Carson- Pinion Canyon Military Lands Withdrawal established by Congress in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 as extended by Public Land Order No. 7783 for an additional 15-year period. The withdrawal, established by Congress, as extended, expires on September 22, 2026. This notice advises the public of a 90-day opportunity to comment on the withdrawal extension application and gives notice of a public meeting.
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