It took nearly a decade of tribal advocacy, 150 days of public comment, eight public meetings, and a hundred thousand submissions to put a ten-mile shield around Chaco Canyon, and the Trump administration is giving you fourteen days and zero meetings to stop them from tearing it off.

Chaco was the beating heart of Puebloan civilization for four hundred years, a network of great houses, ceremonial kivas, and roads running out across the high desert, and it's a UNESCO World Heritage site today. The BLM has documented 4,730 archaeological sites inside the withdrawal area with only 15 to 20 percent of the ground ever surveyed. Archaeologists think as many as 12,000 sites are out there.

Ninety percent of the Greater Chaco region is already leased for oil and gas, with more than 37,000 wells and 15,000 miles of road crammed into it. The buffer was the bare minimum, a tourniquet on a wound that's been bleeding for decades. Now they want the last 336,000 acres too.

They already tried this in April with a seven-day window over a holiday weekend, betting nobody would notice. More than 100,000 of you commented and told them no. They're proceeding anyway. The 20 Pueblos of the All Pueblo Council of Governors, the National Congress of American Indians, and the Mescalero Apache have all said no. The Interior Secretary who calls extractive industries his "customers" is doing it regardless.

Comment before July 29 at midnight Mountain time, it takes two minutes and the law forces them to answer substantive comments on the record. Then share this with someone who'd never forgive themselves for letting this one slide.