Stop oil and gas drilling on Wyoming public lands
2026 Third Quarter Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale
Bureau of Land Management· Wyoming BLM public landsBLM NEPA Register DOI-BLM-WY-0000-2026-0002-EA ↗
BLM ePlanningWe track this on the agency’s own system of record, where most on-the-ground decisions live.
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.
BLM plans to auction Wyoming public lands for oil and gas drilling in 2026 without a full environmental review.
What’s at risk
Wyoming public lands face permanent industrial oil and gas development, including habitat disruption, water risks, and surface damage. BLM is using a limited Environmental Assessment rather than a full Environmental Impact Statement, which may underestimate long-term harm.
If this goes through
Winning bidders gain legal rights to drill on these Wyoming parcels, locking in industrial use that is extremely difficult to reverse.
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.
- Do not open Wyoming public lands to oil and gas drilling through this competitive lease sale without a full Environmental Impact Statement, as an Environmental Assessment is not sufficient for decisions of this scale.
- I oppose BLM's decision to skip a full EIS for this Wyoming lease sale, because drilling on public lands carries serious consequences for wildlife, neighboring landowners, and everyone who uses these parcels.
- Require a complete Environmental Impact Statement before putting any Wyoming public land parcels up for competitive oil and gas bidding in this 2026 lease sale.
- I use and care about the Wyoming public land parcels in this sale and demand BLM conduct a thorough review before allowing drilling to proceed.
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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.
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