** BLM staffers face looming deadline to relocate or quit
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Thursday, November 7, 2019
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The Bureau of Land Management is expected to give its D.C. employees formal notices of relocation next week ([link removed]) . These notices will kick off a 30-day decision period in which employees will be forced to make the decision between moving to offices distributed around the West, or potentially leaving the bureau. Those who choose to relocate will have an additional 90 days to report to their new station.
The relocation is expected to result in many employees leaving the bureau, causing a loss of talent and long-term impacts on the management of public lands.
The letters come after a controversial process that will move roughly 30 positions from D.C. to a new headquarters location in Grand Junction, Colorado. The new headquarters ([link removed]) will be housed alongside a number of oil and gas companies. Nearly 200 other D.C.-based employees will be relocated across the West.
Bureau leadership has been hard-pressed to demonstrate that the relocation is in the bureau's best interests, rather than a political ploy to remove career staffers out of decision-making discussions in the capitol, effectively dismantling the bureau.
Quick hits
** Permian Basin flaring hits all time high
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** BLM removes Nevada sage-grouse habitat from oil, gas lease auction
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** Beer companies join the fight for public lands
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** Federal government sued over decision to permit mine in Nevada
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** 25 years of the California Desert Protection Act
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** Warming climate shrinks snow pack, negative impacts on winter recreation
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** Opinion: Arizona Rep. Tom O'Halleran: the Grand Canyon is too precious to lose
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Quote of the day
We expect many employees to leave the agency, and, in fact, several already have. The loss of talent at the BLM headquarters will have a long-term impact on the management of the public lands."
—Ed Shepard, president of BLM retirees' group
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