16 groups have it in their care
BLM land in Wyoming, 3.5M acres, managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
The defenders
5 groups are on the record for Red Desert, each tied to it by a source our editors read, in the order they carry the weight. The other one is likely to care: a guess from mission and footprint, with no source tying it to this fight. Give directly; nothing routes through us.
Leading the fight
Advocacy · Lander, WY
Leading opposition to BLM’s 2025 reopening of the just-finalized Rock Springs RMP, with program director Alec Underwood arguing the Golden Triangle and Big Sandy Foothills are too special to lease and develop.
22 staff56¢ to the workFounded 1967
On the ground
Coalition · Sheridan, WY
Engaged in the Rock Springs RMP revision since 2011, submitting formal comments and coalition advocacy for roughly 1.6 million acres of ACEC protections across the Red Desert.
8 staff + 103 volunteers77¢ to the workFounded 1979
Also in the fight
Advocacy · Oakland, CA
Its Wyoming Chapter mobilized public comments ahead of the December 18, 2025 deadline against the administration’s rollback of Red Desert ACEC protections in the Rock Springs RMP amendment.
10,895 volunteers81¢ to the workFounded 1892
Legal · Hailey, ID
Co-plaintiff appealing the 2024 court decision that let BLM remove nearly 5,000 wild horses and eliminate 2.1 million acres of habitat in the Red Desert checkerboard, calling the plan a favor to the livestock industry.
18 staff85¢ to the workFounded 1993
Advocacy · Washington, DC
Led the May 2025 comment letter with Wyoming Outdoor Council, NRDC, Rocky Mountain Wild and the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks on BLM Wyoming’s third quarter 2025 lease sale, backing the sage grouse deferrals BLM had proposed and urging it to defer the rest.
178 staff + 32 volunteers75¢ to the workFounded 1935
Likely to care: a guess from mission and footprint, no source ties them to this fight
Legal · Santa Fe, NM
Won in federal court over this place
41 staff + 20 volunteers78¢ to the workFounded 1996
On the ground in Wyoming
More ways in
The situation
The largest unfenced landscape in the Lower 48, a rolling sagebrush ocean where pronghorn make the longest land migration in the Western Hemisphere. No formal protection. The BLM is leasing it for oil and gas at a pace that could sever migration corridors these animals have used for 6,000 years.
Source: WyoFile
Source: High Country News
No public comment window is open on Red Desert right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.
In the courts
The dockets we track that name Red Desert directly. Active first.
Your move
Straight to their own donation page. Your dollar never passes through us.
Their donation page ↗SpeakCall your representativesA ready call script on Red Desert, plus any comment window as it opens.
Public Lands Action NetworkFollowWatch the mapEvery threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.
Threatened Lands MapBuild my lineup around Red Desert: the leading group here opens it, and the other seats fill from this record.
5 groups on the record, 1 more likely to care, Wyoming Outdoor Council with 22 staff. That is who is holding it. Find your way in.
