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The live docket, the local angle for your state, the story behind the tool, and a fast reply from the people who built it.
The docket, live
Citable as of September 25, 2026 · sources: Federal Register, regulations.govpublic lands decisions open for comment
comments on the official record across them
windows close within seven days
next deadline: Stop delisting the Gila chub from federal protection
Every number traces to a primary federal record; every action page links its Federal Register notice and docket. Check our work on the methodology page.
Ready to file: what closes next.
Each of these is a complete story lead: the decision, the deadline, the official record so far, and the primary documents one click in.
Stop delisting the Gila chub from federal protection
Cascade Cottages historic character faces harm in Rocky Mountain National Park
Mt. Baker geothermal leasing nears Forest Service consent decision
The local angle, one URL away.
Every state has a live briefing: the open decisions that touch it, the 6 nationwide rules that reach it anyway, and its congressional delegation graded on public lands votes. If you cover a state desk, this is your standing assignment feed.
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Three ways in
The filmmakers who stopped just filming.
More Than Just Parks set out to film every national park in America and built an audience of tens of millions. Then the places in the footage started going up for lease and for sale. The Pattiz brothers started covering what was happening to these places and advocating for the lands they had come to love. PLAN is the tool they built so everyone else could act too.
The most powerful civic lever nobody uses.
A public comment carries a weight a petition signature never will. Under the Administrative Procedure Act, agencies must consider and answer substantive comments before finalizing a decision, and courts have thrown decisions out when they didn’t. Identical form letters get bundled and counted once. PLAN coaches each person toward the specific, local detail that carries legal weight, then hands them to the official page. It never submits for anyone.
The fate of 640 million acres, decided in windows nobody sees.
Drilling rules, land sales, wilderness protections, grazing standards: the decisions run through Federal Register comment windows that open and close in weeks. PLAN scans the Register every morning, keeps only the genuine public lands fights, explains the stakes in plain English, and puts a countdown on every one.
On the record
Your public lands are under attack. That much is true. The lie is that you are powerless to stop it.
Will & Jim Pattiz, co-founders, More Than Just Parks
We’re done sitting on the sidelines, and done watching everyone else sit on theirs. Pick one decision. Say something true. That’s how this is won.
Will & Jim Pattiz, co-founders, More Than Just Parks
Boilerplate, copy-ready
PLAN, the Public Lands Action Network (morethanjustparks.com/public-lands-action-network), is a free civic action tool from More Than Just Parks, the conservation media brand founded by brothers Will and Jim Pattiz. PLAN scans the Federal Register every morning for public lands decisions open for public comment, explains what's at stake in plain English, and gives anyone four ways to act in minutes: comment on the official record, call their representatives, write their local paper, or share the fight. Under the Administrative Procedure Act, agencies are required to consider and respond to substantive public comments, and PLAN is built to help ordinary people write the specific, personal comments that carry that weight. PLAN is free and requires no account, and every comment files in the user's own name on the official government page.
Assets
Free to use in coverage of PLAN or More Than Just Parks, with credit. Every action page also generates its own photographic share card; grab any of them.
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