How do I submit a public comment on 2026 Integrated Invasive Plant Management on the Burns District?

Submit your comment through the agency's official portal at https://eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-Now?id=05afd3f6-53d1-f111-a05c-001dd8084607&ppid=493ea71e-aff7-f011-8406-001dd802f839. This page includes talking points and a starter comment you can make your own.

When is the public comment deadline for 2026 Integrated Invasive Plant Management on the Burns District?

Comments are due by November 4, 2026. Comments received after the deadline may not be considered by the agency.

Do public comments actually change federal decisions?

Yes, when they are substantive. Agencies are legally required to read and respond to substantive comments before finalizing a rule, and specific personal comments about real places and real uses carry far more weight than identical form letters. Courts have overturned rules when agencies ignored substantive comments.

Burns District BLM would add 10 herbicides and drone spraying

4 holes in the agency’s own analysis

Make these points, in your own words

This proposal adds 10 new herbicide active ingredients to Burns District public lands in southeastern Oregon, including aminocyclopyrachlor, indaziflam, and flumioxazin, significantly expanding the chemical toolkit used on shared public land.
The Burns District BLM plans to authorize drone-based aerial herbicide application across the district, a new delivery method that has not previously been used in this program.
Expanding treatment acreage under this updated plan means more of the Andrews Field Office and surrounding Burns District lands will be subject to herbicide treatments than under the existing program.
The prior environmental analyses cited for these herbicides were programmatic and broad, not specific to the Burns District landscape, wildlife, and waterways that would actually receive these chemical applications.

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.

Affects public lands

PLAN’s own label for this notice, read from the official notice ↗.

BLM wants to expand chemical treatment options and allow drone spraying across southeastern Oregon public lands.

What’s at risk

Wildlife, water sources, and recreationists in the Burns District face exposure to 10 newly approved herbicide ingredients applied via ground and drone. Drone-based aerial application extends the reach and speed of chemical treatment across previously untreated or harder-to-access public lands.

If this goes through

BLM would gain permanent authority to use 10 additional herbicides and drone spraying technology across the Burns District, locking in expanded chemical treatment as standard practice.

Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.

In the agency’s own words

The District is proposing to update and expand this program by: • Adding 10 additional herbicide active ingredients (aminocyclopyrachlor, aminopyralid, clethodim, fluazifop-P-butyl, flumioxazin, fluroxypyr, imazamox, indaziflam, oryzalin, and rimsulfuron) to the list of herbicides available for use on the Burns District for invasive plant management; • Including the use of new technology such as drones for aerial applications and monitoring; and • Updating the proposed treatment acres from the existing Burns Integrated Invasive Plant Management EA to include the areas on which the new herbicides would be used in…

BLM NEPA Register DOI-BLM-ORWA-B060-2026-0001-EA ↗

The groups on this fight

4 groups predicted likely to care in Oregon

Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Oregon, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

Cascadia Wildlands
Predicted likely to care · a guess
42 Divide Timber Project, Oregon: Plaintiff in the January 2026 suit against the Roseburg BLM plan to log nearly 7,000 acres near Camas Valley.
Crag Law Center
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Elliott State Research Forest, Oregon: Represented Bird Alliance of Oregon, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Cascadia Wildlands in the 2012 Endangered Species Act suit over logging occupied murrelet habitat, which ended in the 2014 settlement canceling 28 timber sales.
Oregon Natural Desert Association
Predicted likely to care · a guess
McDermitt Caldera, Oregon: Anchors the McDermitt Caldera Coalition on the Oregon side and fought the BLM's December 2025 approval of the Jindalee/HiTech lithium exploration project through the permitting process.
Oregon Wild
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Western Oregon O&C Lands, Oregon: Its attorneys, with Cascadia Wildlands and Crag Law Center, represent the groups challenging BLM's Blue and Gold old-growth logging project in the Coast Range.

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

This fight isn’t bound to a map place in PLAN’s record yet. The notice names Burns District, Andrews Field Office (OR); none is a unit on the threatened lands map, so there’s no place page to open or watch.

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.

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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Burns District BLM would add 10 herbicides and drone spraying

4 holes in the agency’s own analysis

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