Comments closed September 24
Rio Felix Watershed grazing permits renewed without new environmental review
Bureau of Land Management · Rio Felix Watershed
- What
- BLM plans to renew livestock grazing permits by skipping a full environmental analysis of the watershed.
- Where
- Rio Felix Watershed
- How much
- Wildlife habitat, water quality, and vegetation in the Rio Felix Watershed face continued grazing pressure with no updated assessment of current conditions.
- Decided
- Comments closed September 24, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from BLM ePlanning project page ↗, read September 6, 2026.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the BLM NEPA Register DOI-BLM-NM-P020-2026-1659-DNA ↗. 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.
- DecidedSeptember 24, 2026, from BLM ePlanning project page, its public participation period ↗. Read September 6, 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
BLM plans to renew livestock grazing permits by skipping a full environmental analysis of the watershed.
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 agency’s own analysis
What the notice says, and what it leaves out
The window has closed; the record of what was missing stays.
The agency says
“The Proposed Action is to issue a grazing permit renewal for the proposed grazing allotments.”
The notice identifies this project as a DNA (Determination of NEPA Adequacy), meaning the agency is relying on prior environmental analysis rather than conducting new analysis.
In the agency’s own words
The Proposed Action is to issue a grazing permit renewal for the proposed grazing allotments.
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: Pronghorn in sagebrush steppe. It’s the country this decision sits in, not the site itself. More Than Just Parks.
In court on this ground
No court case we track is over Carlsbad Field Office.
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.
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