
POLICY Engagement Letters
Federal land management agencies work to implement projects on lands they manage on an ongoing basis. It is important that the public take a close look at such projects and make sure they undergo proper environmental review, adverse impacts to natural resources are considered, and when appropriate, projects are redesigned and/or mitigation measures are implemented.
Land management agencies often seek to do the right things but need the public’s help to guide them. Without public engagement and comments to the agencies, public lands can succumb to unsustainable recreational use, industrial development, and misguided management. It is our responsibility to make sure our shared public lands are protected for generations to come.
We track public lands projects, known as Proposed Actions, across public lands in Inyo and Mono Counties. This includes both small actions as well as landscape level decisions. Our policy team tracks notices from the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service and county governments.
You can view our engagement letters and applicable project files from the past by clicking on the links below.
Mining
Conglomerate Mesa
- Request for Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 2021
- Expanded Drilling Requires EIS 2020
- Perdito Project Coalition 2017
- Timberline Resources Drilling 2008
Resource Documents:
Comment Period Announced BLM 2021
Evidence of Mineralization Report 2017
Finding of No Significant Impact
Conglomerate Mesa Environmental Assessment (EA)
Record of Decision Appendices Figures
Mammoth Area Long Valley
Panamint Valley
Resource Documents:
Lithium Project Record of Decision
Hains Tech Report for Lithium Project
Death Valley National Park Comments to BLM on Lithium 2019
Panamint Lithium EA
Other
- Exemption from the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1975 Rulemaking 2024
- Polaris Mineral Exploration Project EA Scoping Comments
- Robbie Hoyt Mine 2017
Bodie Hills
Bureau of Land Management
- CA- BLM Restoration Landscape Letter 2025
- Bureau of Land Management’s Blueprint for 21st Century Outdoor Recreation 2023
- Comments on BLM Proposed Conservation and Landscape Health Rule – Bodie Hills 2023
- Amargosa River Management Plan 2021
- West-wide Energy Corridor Plan 2019
- Change of Planning Rules 2016
Alabama Hills
Tribal Sovereignty
Forest Service Management
- Coyote Flat OHV Recreation Enhancement Project 2024
- Draft Environmental Assessment for the Eastern Sierra Climate and Communities Resilience Project 2023
- Mammoth Mountain Main Lodge Redevelopment EIR/EIS Scoping USFS Project 2022
- Comprehensive River Management Plan 2022
- Comprehensive River Management Plan 2021
- Solitude Canyon and Sherwins Area Trails 2020
- Woolly’s Adventure Summit & Snowmaking 2020
- Prescribed Fire 2019
- NEPA Rule Changes 2019
- Inyo County Roads Project 2019
- ROLG/FOI Bridgeport Southwest Rangeland Project Comment Letter 2021
- Bridgeport Southwest Rangeland Project Aug 2019
- Bridgeport Southwest Rangeland Project June 2018
- NEPA Rule Change Compliance Prescoping 2018
- Fuels Reduction Reds Meadow 2018
- Mammoth Land Exchange 2017
- Reds Meadow Environmental Assessment 2017
- R5 trails 2017
- Over-snow Vehicle Use 2016
- Invasive Plant Management Proposed Action EA_2016
- Jeffrey Pine Forest Health&Restoration 2016
- Travel Analysis Process 2015
- Motorized Routes Modifications_2012
Forest Planning
- Forest Plan Revision Objections 2018
- DEIS Comments 2016
- Forest Plan Scoping 2014
- Forest Plan Revisions 2014
- Desired Conditions & Wilderness Inventory 2014Inyo NF Assessment Topic Papers 2013
Resource Documents:
Attachment A – ROS Plan Components
Attachment B – ROS Setting Characteristics
Mono County
Renewable Energy
- Rush Creek Hydroelectic Relicensing Draft Licensing Application 2024
- Bodie Hills Comments on the Draft Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement 2024
- Notice of Preparation of an Environmental Impact Report for the Control-Silver Peak Project Proposed by SCE 2023
- FERC – Rush Creek Project Revision Request 2023
- Western Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement/Resource Mgmt. Plan Scoping 2023
- Rush Creek Hydroelectric Relicensing Scoping 2022
- Haiwee Geothermal Draft Environmental Impact Statement 2019
- Haiwee FERC Applicaton Comment 2019
Resource Documents:
Haiwee Supplemental Draft EIS and Draft Plan Amendment
Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) 2018
DRECP Comment Letter 2016
Renewable Energy General Plan Amendment 2015
Resource Documents:
DRECP BLM LUPA Record of Decision
DRECP BLM LUPA
Eastern Sierra Water
- Comment Letter on Draft Owens Valley Groundwater Authority (OVGA) Annual Report for Water Year 2022 – April 2024
- Comment Letter on Committee for Owens Lake Scientific Advisory Panel on Off-Lake Sources of Airborne Dust – April 2024
- Making Conservation a California Way of Life – March 2024
- California State Water Resources Control Board – Mono Lake Diversions 2023
- Owens Lake Test Pumping – March 2021
- LADWP Comment Letter – June 2018
- Owens Lake Management Plan 2015
Wildlife & Plants
- Support for Listing of the Greater sage-grouse under the California Endangered Species Act
- Bodie Hills Management and Conservation of Pinyon and Juniper Woodlands
- Comments on the Bi-State Sage Grouse Action Plan 2023
- List the Whitebark Pine 2021
- List the Sierra Nevada Red Fox 2020
- List Joshua tree under California Endangered Species Act 2020
- Stop rodenticide poisoning in California 2020
- Bi-State Sage Grouse June 2019
- Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Mono County 2017
- Parker Bench Sage Grouse Enhancement project 2016
West Mojave OHV Route Network
Death Valley National Park
Devils Postpile National Monument
- Wastewater Comments 2021
- Fire Management Environmental Assessment 2018
- Fire Management Scoping 2018
- General Management Plan 2014
Other National Monuments
- Support for California’s National Monuments 2017
- Sand to Snow National Monument 2017
- San Gabriel Mountains National Monument 2017
- Mojave Trails National Monument 2017
- Giant Sequoia National Monument 2017
- Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument 2017
- Carrizo Plain National Monument 2017
- CA Monuments Mono County 2017
- Berryessa National Monument 2017
Defense of Public Lands
- NGO Letter to Newsom Defending the Californian Environment 2025
- NGOs Letter for Immediate Reversal of Public Land Agency Terminations 2025
California State of Public Lands
Updates