** How Trump broke the Bureau of Land Management
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Friday, January 29, 2021
A Bureau of Land Management Campground in California, Wikimedia Commons ([link removed](33074861086).jpg)

Newly-released statistics reveal how the Trump administration successfully eliminated the leadership at the Bureau of Land Management. Former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s decision to “relocate” jobs to an ostensible new headquarters in Grand Junction, Colorado led to the departure of nearly 90 percent of BLM employees from the DC office ([link removed]) .

Out of the 328 positions targeted for moving out West, 287 employees retired or found new jobs between July 2019 and December 2020 — leaving just 41 people to move with their jobs ([link removed]) .

Aaron Weiss, deputy director at the Center for Western Priorities, told Colorado Public Radio ([link removed]) that the job statistics reveal why the Trump administration had refused to release details about the move.

“What it looks like, because of all of that secrecy, is that this headquarters move has just been a total failure,” Weiss said. “And it was, as we expected, just a move to eviscerate the agency and centralize control, ironically, with Secretary Bernhardt in Washington, D.C.”


** Sally Jewell on repairing the damage
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In a new must-listen episode ([link removed]) of CWP's podcast, "The Landscape ([link removed]) ," former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell weighs in on how the Biden administration can start to repair the damage of the Trump/Bernhardt years, the importance of President Biden's executive order on climate change, and how listening to everyone is the key to creating lasting change.
Quick hits


** Oil and gas companies say they support climate action. Are they serious?
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Los Angeles Times ([link removed])


** Podcast: Sally Jewell on climate change, extremism, and the power of listening
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The Landscape ([link removed])


** Biden endorses bold 30x30 conservation plan. Will congress?
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E&E News ([link removed])


** Nearly 90% of BLM’s DC staff quit in Bernhardt headquarters purge
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Washington Post ([link removed]) | Colorado Public Radio ([link removed]) | The Hill ([link removed]) | E&E News ([link removed])


** What the Biden administration means for public lands in Nevada
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Nevada Independent ([link removed])


** Opinion: GM's big announcement will change how we talk about fossil fuels
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Washington Post ([link removed])


** Roosevelt biographer on the Antiquities Act, a presidential “superpower”
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Salt Lake Tribune ([link removed])


** Toxic Colorado cave named a National Historic Landmark
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Out There Colorado ([link removed])
Quote of the day
It’s part of a living cultural landscape that’s important to people that are there now. Being able to confirm it as a place and that there’s physical form to this story — I think that’s very important.”
—Thomas Urban, Cornell University archaeologist, on the discovery of the location ([link removed]) where Alaska's Tinglit people built a wooden fort to resist Russian invaders in the early 1800s
Picture this


** US Department of the Interior ([link removed])
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"Are you having trouble losing those unwanted, extra holiday pounds? Then ask your doctor if hibernation is right for you." Winter is the time of year in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming when bears hibernate, although, it's possible to see one any time of year. During hibernation, a bear doesn't eat, urinate or defecate and can lose up to a third of its body weight in a few months without losing much muscle or bone density. Video courtesy Trent Sizemore Photography.

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