Comments closed August 15
Stop a poorly reviewed fire plan from harming Grand Canyon
National Park Service · AZ
- What
- A new fire management framework will control prescribed burns and wildfire response across Grand Canyon for years.
- Where
- AZ
- How much
- Wildlife, native vegetation, Indigenous cultural resources, and visitor experience across Grand Canyon's millions of acres are all shaped by this plan.
- Decided
- Comments closed August 15, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from National Park Service PEPC project page ↗, read July 18, 2026.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the NPS Planning (PEPC) project page ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the project page 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 15, 2026, from National Park Service PEPC project page, the document’s comment period ↗. Read July 18, 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.
Affects public lands
A new fire management framework will control prescribed burns and wildfire response across Grand Canyon for years.
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.
In the agency’s own words
2026 Public Review and Comment - Draft Programmatic Agreement for Fire Management Plan
The groups on this fight
One group works this ground: Grand Canyon National Park
Works this ground means the editors' sourced record puts the group on this land, not that it has taken a side on this decision; predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Arizona, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Grand Canyon Conservancy
Works this ground · not linked to this decision
Works this ground at Grand Canyon National Park: A nonprofit partner of Grand Canyon National Park.
Source ↗ - Center for Biological Diversity
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Oak Flat / Chi'chil Bildagoteel, Arizona: Plaintiff in the federal litigation over the Resolution Copper land exchange, now on appeal at the Ninth Circuit.
- Grand Canyon Trust
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni National Monument, Arizona: Intervened in federal court to defend the monument designation against the Arizona Legislature's lawsuit.
- Sierra Club
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Sonoran Desert National Monument, Arizona: The Grand Canyon Chapter has been co-plaintiff with Western Watersheds Project in the monument grazing litigation, including the 2021 case that produced the 2024 restricted-grazing plan.
- Western Watersheds Project
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Sonoran Desert National Monument, Arizona: Sued BLM over monument grazing in 2013 and again in 2021 with Advocates for the West as counsel; the August 2023 ruling halted grazing authorizations, and BLM's December 2024 plan allows grazing only in years with above-average precipitation and forage.
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: Desert bighorn sheep in red-rock canyon country. It’s the country this decision sits in, not the site itself. More Than Just Parks.
In court on this ground
4 court cases are over Grand Canyon National Park, newest first.
Decided · filed December 12, 2017
National Mining Association v. Ryan Zinke
Decided. We don’t hold the court’s words on it yet.
Docket closed · no date on file
Center for Biological Diversity v. Salazar
The court closed the docket. We don’t hold its entries yet.
Docket closed · no date on file
The court closed the docket. We don’t hold its entries yet.
Decided · no date on file
Havasupai Tribe v. Heather Provencio
Decided. We don’t hold the court’s words on it yet.
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 ↗NPS PEPCWe track this on the agency’s own system of record, where most on-the-ground decisions live.
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