** Haaland heads to headquarters headache
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Interior Department ([link removed])

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland will travel to Grand Junction, Colorado on Friday ([link removed]) to tour the mostly-empty headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management. The visit makes good on a promise ([link removed]) Haaland made to Senator John Hickenlooper to visit Colorado before making a decision about whether to relocate the agency's headquarters back to Washington, DC.

The visit will give Haaland a chance "to see in person the extent of the damage that the Trump administration inflicted on the Bureau of Land Management," said Jennifer Rokala, executive director at the Center for Western Priorities ([link removed]) .

"It's laudable that Senators Hickenlooper and Bennet want to keep jobs in Colorado," Rokala added ([link removed]) , "but at the end of the day, the Trump 'relocation' of BLM headquarters was always designed to eviscerate the agency and force employees out, not create jobs."

The Interior Department previously revealed ([link removed]) that out of 328 positions that had been located in Washington, DC at the start of the Trump administration, just three employees moved to Grand Junction, and 38 others were relocated to state offices across the West.
Quick hits


** Extremist or bridge-builder? A brawl over Biden’s pick to oversee public lands
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New York Times ([link removed]) | CPR News ([link removed]) | Durango Herald ([link removed])


** Haaland to tour relocated BLM headquarters in Grand Junction
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CPR News ([link removed]) | Colorado Politics ([link removed]) | E&E News ([link removed]) | Denver Post ([link removed])


** Lake Powell curtails houseboats, extends ramps as water level falls
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The Spectrum ([link removed]) | KUTV ([link removed])


** Thousands of birds face a dry year at Klamath Basin refuges
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Jefferson Public Radio ([link removed])


** Work begins to repair damage from Trump border wall in Arizona
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Arizona Republic ([link removed])


** White House details environmental justice plans
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E&E News ([link removed])


** Lawmakers lay out vision for Civilian Climate Corps
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The Hill ([link removed])


** Couple faces manslaughter charges for wildfire started by gender reveal party
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Los Angeles Times ([link removed]) | Press-Enterprise ([link removed]) | Washington Post ([link removed]) | New York Times ([link removed])
Quote of the day
The concerns that many folks have about Stone-Manning’s nomination is that she’s going to be more on the side of protecting public lands for public uses, and the folks who want public lands to be used for more development don’t like that. These other issues are being used as a way to block her confirmation. I don’t think anybody really cares what she did 32 years ago.”
—University of Colorado Professor Mark Squillace
The New York Times ([link removed])
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** @wickphotos ([link removed])
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Have been doing a crazy amount of photo editing the past couple weeks to provide useable/findable images after I retire in 8 days. Here is a drone shot from the Carrizo Plain National Monument -- Shows Wallace Creek, a stream channel that carves across the San Andreas Fault & has been "offset" over the years by the plates on either side of the fault slipping past each other.

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