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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland visited the new Bureau of Land Management (BLM) headquarters in Grand Junction, Colorado last Friday as part of a three-day tour of the state. The Trump administration's decision to relocate the BLM's headquarters to Western Colorado was widely criticized as an attempt to gut the agency. After promising to deliver more than 300 jobs, agency officials recently confirmed that only three employees ultimately relocated while many took jobs with other agencies or retired rather than being forced to relocate.
Secretary Haaland visited the new HQ at the request of Colorado Senator John Hickenlooper as she mulls whether the agency headquarters should remain in Grand Junction or move back to Washington, D.C. Speaking at a news conference, Secretary Haaland said, “We need to provide a path forward for clarity and to avoid having employees face renewed uncertainty under future administrations. We owe it to the people of Grand Junction as well.”
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