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 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is accepting public comments on Colorado Parks and Wildlife's application for an Enhancement of Survival Permit for the greenback cutthroat trout, a threatened species. The permit would be backed by a Conservation Benefit Agreement allowing CPW and private landowners to carry out conservation actions for the fish. It affects nonfederal landowners in Colorado and is supported by a NEPA categorical exclusion, meaning the agency doesn't expect significant environmental impacts from the permitting process itself.

In the agency’s own words

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are announcing the availability of documents supporting Colorado Parks and Wildlife's (CPW) application for an enhancement of survival permit (permit) for the greenback cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii stomias, GBCT) under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. CPW's permit application includes a programmatic conservation benefit agreement (CBA) for the GBCT, which would enable CPW and nonfederal landowners to implement conservation measures for the species. The documents available for review and comment are the applicant's CBA and our draft environm…

Federal Register 2026-10238 ↗

The groups on this fight

One group is in on this fight

In on this fight means a link on this decision itself: the group's own regulations.gov comment on it, or a case filed over it naming the group; predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Colorado, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

• Trout Unlimited

  In on this fight · linked

  Filed its own comment on this decision on June 3, 2026.

  Their comment on regulations.gov ↗
• Rocky Mountain Wild

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Colorado BLM Lease Sale, 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

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, 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.

• Thompson Divide Coalition

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Thompson Divide, Colorado: A conservation group working on Thompson Divide.

• WildEarth Guardians

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado: Named petitioner against the Uinta Basin Railway over habitat destruction in the basin.

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.

The photograph on this page: Cutthroat trout, caught and released on a western river. More Than Just Parks.

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.