Aug. 11, '09 - Case closed:  Administrative Law Judge issues order vacating and remanding BLM's decision after the agency agrees to withdraw the project.

May 12, '09 - Victory for wilderness and sage grouse! An administrative law judge in the Department of the Interior's Office of Hearings and Appeals agrees with ONDA that BLM's no-wilderness decision is arbitrary and not supported by the record, and issues an order preliminarily enjoining BLM from implementing the Tired Horse Butte fence project.

Apr. 22, '09 - ONDA files reply brief, arguing that newly produced evidence from BLM's wilderness inventory forms further erodes agency's decision not to study wilderness values in the environmental assessment for project.  

Mar. 25, '09 - After BLM denies ONDA's protest, ONDA administratively appeals agency's final decision.

Administrative action challenging a BLM decision to build a 4.5-mile fence that would dissect an ONDA-proposed Wilderness Study Area.

Jan. 19, '09 - ONDA protests BLM's proposed decision to implement the Tired Horse Butte Fence project, giving agency a final opportunity to correct errors in its wilderness inventory. 

Nov. 6, '08 - ONDA comments on BLM's proposal to build a 4.5-mile barbed-wire fence on the West Wagontire Allotment. The fence would dissect a portion of ONDA's Lonesome Lake proposed WSA, and would be sited within 2.5 miles of two active sage grouse leks. BLM rejected ONDA's wilderness inventory findings for this area based on a flawed analysis of roadlessness and other key factors of wilderness, including refusing to inventory the entire 189,000-acre Lonesome Lakes roadless area.