Comment on FR Doc # 2026-09387
AnonymousOpposeAdvocacy
Summary: Chandra Rosenthal, Director of Rocky Mountain PEER, opposes the proposed grazing rule, arguing it reduces accountability for BLM managers and favors ranchers over conservation. The organization advocates for more rigorous land health standards, better data collection, and increased public oversight.
BLM grazing reform is desperately needed. Unfortunately, this proposal is largely the opposite of what is actually needed. It would provide greater discretion and much less accountability to BLM managers who have always demonstrated a profound bias favoring ranchers. It would replace weakly enforced allotment based land health standards with vague landscape standards that would practically be unenforceable. It would remove current interested publics and greatly hinder necessary public oversight and involvement. It would create an arbitrary production based standard that would punish ranchers with bison despite no statutory or scientific basis for this punishment. It would improperly remove conservation as a legitimate management objective despite millions of acres of currently degraded BLM lands from grazing. The attachment documents this degradation and why real BLM grazing reforms are warranted. This proposal is a shameful giveaway to ranchers and MAGA Republican politicians. It should be rejected.