Transparency in BLM resource planning

Transparency in BLM resource planning

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A clearer window into how BLM plans are made

BLM plans decide where mining, drilling, grazing, and conservation happen on public lands. This cause focuses on earlier, clearer public access to the data and draft decisions that shape those plans. Winning means Congress includes 2026 bill language that requires BLM to disclose key environmental and cultural analyses before it issues resource-management plans.

Why this matters now

BLM manages about 245 million acres of public land. When land-use plans are hard to find, hard to understand, or shared late, local knowledge shows up too late to matter.

More transparency can help communities, tribes, and land users see what is being proposed and respond early. It can also reduce suspicion that decisions are being made for insiders instead of the public interest.

What's blocking progress

BLM faces internal resistance, tight resources, and real legal limits after the 2017 repeal of Planning 2.0 under the Congressional Review Act. Some industry groups and allied officials may also oppose changes that increase scrutiny or slow approvals.

Strategies

Choose which strategies should receive funding this cycle.

Lobbying

Policy reform via Interior Department

Develop a new BLM Planning Handbook or Secretarial Order that institutes transparency measures without violating the CRA ban.

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Field Testing

Technology and pilot projects

Encourage BLM to pilot new tools – perhaps a “BLM Land Planning Portal” – in one or two regions.

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Lobbying

Legislative fix

Lobby Congress for a Public Lands Planning Modernization Act that explicitly authorizes BLM to implement the collaborative planning practices from 2016 and m...

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Litigation

Litigation and legal pressure

Use lawsuits strategically to force transparency – e.g.

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Media

Stakeholder and public campaigns

Build a coalition of stakeholders (recreation groups, conservationists, tribal representatives, even some ranchers and local governments) to publicly call fo...

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