On June 17, 2023, Brad Klafehn joined forces with the Arizona and New Mexico Plant Societies to file comments on the Proposed BLM Landscape Rules. In their comments the three societies said that it seemed that the new Conservation Leasing initiative would be tailor-made to interface with groups such as ours, to promote the purposes of the Public Lands Rule, but as written Conservation Leasing program would not be effective for non-profits which wish to enter into conservation leases, and may, in fact, be counterproductive.