Citizens for a Healthy Community v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management

Conservation groups and federal defendants agreed to a settlement that resolved a lawsuit filed in 2020 challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM’s) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decisions authorizing the Uncompahgre Resource Management Plan (RMP). BLM, which previously committed in another lawsuit to complete Resource Management Plan Amendments for the Uncompahgre RMP to address Gunnison sage-grouse habitat and big game habitat areas, agreed to complete an RMP amendment process that will reconsider eligibility of lands open to oil and gas leasing, among other issues. BLM agreed not to issue new oil and gas leases in the Uncompahgre planning area until the RMP amendment is approved.