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

Tip Sheet Comment Suggestions

Comment Period Announced BLM 2021

Evidence of Mineralization Report 2017

Finding of No Significant Impact

Record of Decision

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

Bodie Hills

Bureau of Land Management

     Alabama Hills

Tribal Sovereignty

Forest Service Management

Forest Planning

Mono County

Renewable Energy

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

Wildlife & Plants

West Mojave OHV Route Network

Death Valley National Park

Devils Postpile National Monument

Other National Monuments

Defense of Public Lands

California State of Public Lands

Updates