Stop the DeLamar Mine-Owyhee County

The groups on this fight

4 groups work Idaho

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.

• Advocates for the West

  Works Idaho: represented Western Watersheds Project in the Jarbidge grazing litigation, winning 2004 and 2005 NEPA rulings, a 2009 injunction that grazing-as-usual must end, and a 2011 order closing 17 allotments across the 625,000-acre resource area..

• Center for Biological Diversity

  Works Idaho: plaintiff and co-counsel in the February 2025 lawsuit arguing federal wildlife agencies violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to protect salmon, steelhead, bull trout, and wolverine from the mine..

• Idaho Conservation League

  Works Idaho: mobilized Idahoans to file Interior Department comments defending Craters of the Moon during the 2017 national monument review, arguing shrinkage would damage the economies of Blaine, Butte, Minidoka, and Power counties..

• Western Watersheds Project

  Works Idaho: has litigated BLM grazing mismanagement across 1.4 million acres of the Jarbidge and Bruneau river canyonlands since the early 2000s, winning injunctions against permit overruns and Ninth Circuit-affirmed orders requiring allotment assessments and stream protections..

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

The BLM's Owyhee Field Office is kicking off an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for DeLamar Mining Company's proposed mine project in Owyhee County, Idaho. It's opening a public scoping period to gather comments and identify key environmental concerns before the review moves forward. Conservation professionals, local communities, and anyone with interests in Idaho's public lands should pay attention and submit comments during this early stage.

In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Owyhee Field Office, Marsing, Idaho intends to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to consider the effects of DeLamar Mining Company's proposed DeLamar Mine Project in Owyhee County, Idaho. This notice announces the beginning of the scoping process to solicit public comments and identify issues.

Federal Register 2026-10798 ↗

More actions that need you