Comments closed August 10
Stop oil and gas drilling on Wyoming public lands
Bureau of Land Management · Wyoming BLM public lands, WY
- What
- BLM plans to auction Wyoming public lands for oil and gas drilling in 2026 without a full environmental review.
- Where
- Wyoming BLM public lands, WY
- How much
- Wyoming public lands face permanent industrial oil and gas development, including habitat disruption, water risks, and surface damage.
- Decided
- Comments closed August 10, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from BLM ePlanning project page ↗, read July 29, 2026.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the BLM NEPA Register DOI-BLM-WY-0000-2026-0002-EA ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the notice names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchThe first sentence of our What’s at risk read of the notice; the whole read is under Case.
- DecidedAugust 10, 2026, from BLM ePlanning project page, its public participation period ↗. Read July 29, 2026. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 9, 2026.
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.
No decision document is on PLAN’s record for this fight yet. When the agency’s decision lands, what it answered goes here.
PLAN's read: high threat
BLM plans to auction Wyoming public lands for oil and gas drilling in 2026 without a full environmental review.
What’s at risk
If this goes through
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
The groups on this fight
4 groups predicted likely to care in Wyoming
Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Wyoming, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Western Watersheds Project
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Adobe Town WSA, 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
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Red Desert (Wyoming BLM), 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
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Adobe Town WSA, 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.
- Yellowstone Forever
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Wyoming: A nonprofit partner of Yellowstone National Park.
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: Greater sage-grouse displaying on a lek in sagebrush country. It’s the country this decision sits in, not the site itself. 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.
See how your members vote ↗BLM ePlanningWe track this on the agency’s own system of record, where most on-the-ground decisions live.
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