The Oil & Gas Lease Sales map below shows parcels proposed to be offered for lease by the Bureau of Land Management. This interactive map shows current and upcoming lease sales and their conflicts with wildlife and natural areas. More information on upcoming leases is shown below the map.
Advice on how to use the map: Zoom in for more detail. Select the layer list icon in the upper left, expand and turn on conservation_conflicts and other layers and sublayers. Click on parcels or conservation conflict areas for more information. Scroll through pop-ups for multiple overlapping areas by clicking on the right triangle/arrow.
April 2024 Lease Sale
Environmental Assessment (Posted 11/16/2023)
- The comment period runs through Monday, December 18, 2023. Information on how to comment and a link to an electronic comment form are available on the Montana/Dakotas April 2024 Oil and Gas Lease Sale ePlanning website (click on Home on the left panel for instructions and click on Documents or Participate Now for the comment link). Additional information is available in the Dear Reader Letter and general information is available on the Montana-Dakotas BLM Oil and Gas Leasing website.
- According to the website, documents and GIS data, BLM is proposing to offer 18 parcels/4152 acres in the Havre Field Office in Montana (with additional parcels in North Dakota). The proposed parcels in Montana are located in Blaine, Hill, Liberty and Toole counties. The Montana were previously nominated and deferred from the September 2023 Lease Sale.
- Conservation conflicts identified include parcels in a greater sage-grouse general habitat management area; land within 10 miles of the Nez Perce National Historical Park; a big game (multi-species) corridor priority region; and mule deer and pronghorn winter distribution areas.
- Lease Sale Parcels Scoping (Montana Only): Google Earth kmz | Zipped shapefile
- Lease Sale Scoping ABI Screen (Montana only), a spreadsheet showing conflicts between the proposed parcels and important wildlife, wilderness and other resource values.
September 2023 Lease Sale
Scoping (Posted 3/31/2023)
- The comment period runs through Monday, May 1, 2023. Information on how to comment and a link to an electronic comment form are available on the Montana/Dakotas September 2023 Oil and Gas Lease Sale ePlanning website (click on Home on the left panel for instructions and click on Documents or Participate Now for the comment link). Additional information is available in the Dear Reader Letter and general information is available on the Montana-Dakotas BLM Oil and Gas Leasing website.
- According to the website, documents and GIS data, BLM is proposing to offer 35 parcels/14977 acres in the Billings, Havre, Lewistown, Malta and Miles City Field Offices in Montana (with additional parcels in North Dakota). The proposed parcels in Montana are located in Blaine, Hill, Liberty, Musselshell, Petroleum, Phillips, Richland, Roosevelt, Toole and Yellowstone counties.
- Conservation conflicts identified include parcels in a greater sage-grouse biologically significant unit, priority habitat management areas and general habitat management areas; the War Horse National Wildlife Refuge; land within 10 miles of the Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site; land within 10 miles of the Nez Perce National Historical Park; a big game (multi-species) corridor priority region; mule deer, pronghorn and whitetail deer winter distribution areas.
- Lease Sale Parcels Scoping (Montana Only): Google Earth kmz | Zipped shapefile
- Lease Sale Scoping ABI Screen (Montana only), a spreadsheet showing conflicts between the proposed parcels and important wildlife, wilderness and other resource values.
June 2023 Lease Sale
Environmental Assessment (Posted 3/10/2023)
- According to the website, documents and GIS data, BLM is proposing to offer 51 parcels/ 20,722.22 acres in North Dakota. This sale is managed by the Montana office but no parcels are proposed to be offered in Montana.
- The comment period runs through Monday, April 10, 2023. Information on how to comment and a link to an electronic comment form are available on the Montana/Dakotas June 2023 Oil and Gas Lease Sale ePlanning website (click on Home on the left panel for instructions and click on Documents or Participate Now for the comment link). Additional information is available in the Press Release and general information is available on the Montana-Dakotas BLM Oil and Gas Leasing website.
Scoping (Posted 1/6/2023)
- The comment period runs through Thursday, February 9, 2023. Information on how to comment and a link to an electronic comment form are available on the Montana/Dakotas June 2023 Oil and Gas Lease Sale ePlanning website (click on Home on the left panel for instructions and click on Documents or Participate Now for the comment link). Additional information is available in the Dear Reader Letter and general information is available on the Montana-Dakotas BLM Oil and Gas Leasing website.
- According to the website, documents and GIS data, BLM is proposing to offer 1 parcel/226.7 acres in the Miles City Field Office in Montana (with additional parcels in North Dakota). The proposed parcel in Montana is located in Rosebud county.
- Conservation conflicts identified include parcels in a greater sage-grouse general habitat management areas and pronghorn winter distribution areas.
- Lease Sale Parcels Scoping (Montana Only): Google Earth kmz | Zipped shapefile
- Lease Sale Scoping ABI Screen (Montana only), a spreadsheet showing conflicts between the proposed parcels and important wildlife, wilderness and other resource values.
Resources
- Geospatial Data for currently authorized Federal Oil and Gas Lease Parcels
- Federal Oil and Gas Leasing geospatial data is viewable on the Bureau of Land Management’s Mineral & Land Records System (MLRS) Research Map. Rocky Mountain Wild created a GIS snapshot of this data on 6/15/2023 and it is available as a zipped shapefile. Extracts for states in the Rocky Mountain Region are available in this Google Drive Folder.
- Currently authorized leases spatial data was provided by Bureau of Land Management as of 5/10/2023. Data was modified by Rocky Mountain Wild by removing data with the poorest quality (including all parcels in Texas), extracting parcels for specific states, changing the projection, adding data from the BLM Land & Mineral System Reports as of 6/14/2023, and removing leases no longer authorized as of 6/14/2023.
- In Google Earth kmz data in the Google Drive Folder, Red = held by production. Purple = not held by production.
- Email Alison if you have any questions.
- Upcoming Lease Sale Tracker (summary of lease sales and resource conflicts)
- BLM Montana Oil & Gas Leasing Webpage
- Archive of Montana Oil & Gas Lease Sale Screens
- Rocky Mountain Wild Oil and Gas Toolbox for Activists
- Rocky Mountain Wild Lease Sale Calendar
- Information on the Assessment of Biological Impact (ABI) Screen