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 reopening a 30-day public comment period on its March 2024 proposal to remove the North Park phacelia, a Colorado plant, from the federal Endangered Species Act list. The agency updated its Species Status Assessment based on peer review and previously submitted comments, and it's giving the public another chance to weigh in before making a final delisting decision. Conservation professionals, land managers, and anyone with an interest in Colorado's native plant species should consider submitting comments.

In the agency’s own words

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are reopening the comment period on our March 19, 2024, proposed rule to delist the North Park phacelia (Phacelia formosula), a plant found in the state of Colorado, from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). We are reopening the proposed rule's comment period for 30 days to give all interested parties an additional opportunity to comment on the proposed rule in consideration of the updated Species Status Assessment (SSA) report, which we revised based on new information from comments previ…

Federal Register 2026-08467 ↗

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.

• Center for Biological Diversity

  In on this fight · linked

  Filed its own comment on this decision on May 28, 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: 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.