Opinion: A proposal to move some “bureaucrats” out of Washington is actually a grave threat to the Bureau of Land Management
Jim Caswell served as the director of the BLM from 2007 to 2009.
by political appointees in the Department of the Interior to functionally dismantle the organization.These officials have launched a reorganization plan to relocate BLM’s headquarters from Washington to several Western states, where most of the lands administered by the bureau are. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt asserts that decisions about public lands in Western states need to be made closer to the people who are affected by them.
The result will be that public land-use decisions will be made instead by politically appointed officials within the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, without the involvement of experienced career BLM resource managers and senior policy specialists.
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