Stand · Find your defenders

Who’s defending the Thompson Divide?

BLM land in Colorado, 221,000 acres, managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service.

The defenders

Nobody has claimed this fight yet

No group in our directory carries the Thompson Divide in its work yet. That is not the same as nobody fighting: if you know the group that belongs here, tell us and our editors will look at it.

18 more work nearby but are not tied to Thompson Divide on the record

The situation

What’s happening to Thompson Divide

Ranchers, hunters, and recreationists fought for 20 years to protect the Thompson Divide from drilling and won a hard-fought mineral withdrawal in 2022. Two decades of grassroots work, now being reconsidered by bureaucrats who weren’t there for any of it. The leases these communities killed could come roaring back.

  1. 202220-year mineral withdrawal enactedThe Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

No public comment window is open on Thompson Divide 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.

Your move

How to stand for the Thompson Divide

Build my lineup around Thompson Divide: the leading group here opens it, and the other seats fill from this record.

Thompson Divide has defenders. It needs more.

The work is theirs. The backing is yours.

Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Thompson Divide, with per-item sources. Which groups are on the record for this place: MTJP editors tie a group to a fight only with a source link they have read, one link at a time. A group without one is shown as likely to care, a guess from the federal court record and the group’s own mission and footprint. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-10-03. Nothing on this page is pay-to-play.