The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is considering revoking the Public Lands Rule, which helps ensure our nation’s public lands are managed for clean water, healthy wildlife habitat, and future generations. BLM is accepting public comments through November 10, 2025 on a proposal to rescind this critical rule. We urge every voice that cares about wild places, healthy ecosystems, and resilient communities to speak up.
The rule allows conservation leases on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands, enabling vital work like improving water quality, restoring habitat, re-vegetating degraded areas, and reducing wildfire risk. Without this rule, BLM leases would once again be limited to extractive industries.
Rolling back these protections would erase progress toward balanced, science-based management of more than 245 million acres of public lands that support over 300 threatened and endangered species, provide clean air and water, and sustain communities and local economies.
BLM is accepting public comments through November 10, 2025 on a proposal to rescind this critical rule. We urge every voice that cares about wild places, healthy ecosystems, and resilient communities to speak up.
How to Comment
See our comment/letter ideas below, and visit the official Federal Register page to post your comment. Tell the BLM that:
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Sample Comment Language
I am writing to express my strong support for keeping the Public Lands Rule in place. This rule is essential to ensuring that our nation’s public lands are managed for the health of ecosystems, wildlife, and future generations.
The Public Lands Rule helps restore habitat, improve water quality, re-vegetate degraded areas, and reduce wildfire risk. These are vital actions that protect biodiversity and sustain local communities.
The rule allows conservation leases on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands, enabling vital work like improving water quality, restoring habitat, re-vegetating degraded areas, and reducing wildfire risk.
Rolling back these protections would erase progress toward balanced, science-based management of more than 245 million acres of public lands that support over 300 threatened and endangered species, provide clean air and water, and sustain communities and local economies.
The Federal Land Policy and Management Act requires BLM to manage for multiple uses and sustained yield, including the protection of fish, wildlife, and ecological integrity. The Public Lands Rule helps fulfill that mission by giving conservation equal footing with grazing, timber, and mineral, oil, and gas extraction.
Please keep the Public Lands Rule in place to ensure our public lands continue to serve wildlife, people, and the planet.