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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2018 Efforts to move top US land managers west gain a strong ally Interior secretary is sympathetic By DAN ELLIOTT Associated Press DENVER — From its headquarters in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Bureau of Land Management oversees some of the nation’s most prized nat- ural resources: vast expanses of public lands rich in oil, gas, coal, grazing for livestock, habitat for wildlife, hunting ranges, fishing streams and hiking trails. But more than 99 percent of that land is in 12 Western states, hundreds of miles from the nation’s capital. Some Western politicians — both Republicans and Democrats — are asking why the bureau’s headquarters isn’t in the West as well. “You’re dealing with an agency that basically has no Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke rides a horse in the new Bears Ears National Monument near Blanding, Utah. business in Washington, D.C.,” said Colorado Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, who intro- duced a bill to move the head- quarters to any of those dozen states: Alaska, Arizona, Cali- fornia, Colorado, Idaho, Mon- tana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington or Wyoming. The Bureau of Land Management manages a combined 385,000 square miles in those states. Colorado Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton introduced a similar measure in the House, and three Democrats signed up as co-sponsors: Reps. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Jared Polis of Colorado and Ed Perlmutter of Colorado. Some Westerners have long argued federal land managers should be closer to the land FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT TUESDAY WEDNESDAY 48 39 29 Clear to partly cloudy and cold Mostly cloudy with a couple of showers Mostly cloudy First Salem 23/51 Newport 31/48 Feb 22 Coos Bay 28/53 Last Mar 1 Ontario 20/47 Burns 8/39 Klamath Falls 13/48 Jan. 17, 2018 BISSON, Cassandra and Jonathan, of Knappa, a boy, Lakeview 8/45 Ashland 24/56 TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 5:41 a.m. 6:32 p.m. Low 3.3 ft. 0.1 ft. City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 39 30 56 47 47 40 49 47 47 50 Today Lo 12 8 37 20 31 13 22 25 31 30 W s s s s s s s s s s Hi 45 51 58 50 47 48 58 50 48 53 Tues. Lo 27 31 40 32 42 25 31 35 38 39 W s s s s pc s s s s s City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 46 36 48 50 48 48 34 48 48 47 Today Lo 22 20 27 25 23 28 19 20 25 20 W s s s s s s s s s s Hi 49 46 50 56 51 48 39 51 50 49 Tues. Lo 36 35 36 35 35 40 29 32 36 28 W pc s s s s pc pc s s s TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES W c pc s c pc s pc sn pc s s pc c pc pc pc r c s r s c s s r Hi 55 32 30 51 31 27 72 29 82 41 47 59 61 59 84 60 64 38 48 41 44 49 63 47 43 Tues. Lo 46 27 23 33 27 21 47 16 67 33 36 48 48 48 71 53 62 31 40 34 36 38 46 39 35 the shrinking population of the greater sage grouse, a ground-dwelling bird. The bureau manages more public land than any other federal agency, ranging from about 1 square mile in Virginia to nearly 113,000 square miles in Alaska. That doesn’t include national parks or national for- ests, which are managed by other agencies. It has about 9,000 employ- ees, with fewer than 400 in Washington. The rest are scat- tered among 140 state, district or field offices. “The larger issue is that states and counties that are pre- dominated by public lands are deeply affected by decisions made by BLM,” said Kathleen Sgamma, president of the West- ern Energy Alliance in Denver, which represents the oil and gas industry. “So it makes sense (for the headquarters) to be in a state where there are a high per- centage of public lands.” In Nevada, where the Bureau of Land Management manages 66 percent of the land — a bigger share than any other state — Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei called the idea intriguing but stopped short of endorsing it. “I’m excited about the fact that they’re looking at it,” he said. Amodei said he has spo- ken with bureau officials in Washington who know so lit- tle about Nevada they thought the land under a highway inter- change was wildlife habitat. Few say moving the bureau’s headquarters would tilt its decision-making toward commercial use or preserva- tion and recreation. But some environmen- tal groups question whether it would produce real benefits. Aaron Weiss, media direc- tor for the Center for Western Priorities, said Zinke has been limiting opportunities for local comment on national monu- ments and BLM planning, and moving the headquarters West wouldn’t reverse that. Weiss also suggested Zinke could use a headquarters move as a cover to get rid of employ- ees he considers disloyal. “We absolutely question his motives,” Weiss said. Zinke’s spokeswoman, Heather Swift, said Weiss’s claims are false. More than 2 million people submitted comments during the Interior Department review of Bears Ears and other national mon- uments, and Zinke held more than 60 meetings with local people, she said. Zinke doesn’t believe his proposed reorganization will result in job cuts, Swift said. Athan Manuel, director of the Sierra Club’s public lands program, said the Bureau of Land Management is already decentralized, and moving the headquarters would waste money. “It’s a solution in search of a problem,” he said. Some Bureau of Land Man- agement retirees also are skep- tical of the move. The bureau needs a strong presence in Washington for budget and policy talks, said Steve Ellis, who was the agen- cy’s deputy director when he retired in 2016 after 38 years in civil service, both in Wash- ington and the West. “The relationships in the West are so important, but the relationships in Washington are also important,” Ellis said. “You need the both for the agency to be successful and thrive.” Tobias Alexander Bisson, born at Columbia Memorial Hos- pital in Astoria. Grandparents are Nena and Richard West of Svensen and Rene and Sandra Bisson of Boca Raton, Florida. Astoria, died in Astoria. Cald- well’s Luce-Layton Mortuary of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. McKEOWN, William J., 63, of Astoria, died in Astoria. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mor- tuary of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. Feb. 9, 2018 LEWIS, Corinne M., 76, of Astoria, died in Port- land. Hughes-Ransom Mor- tuaries & Crematory of Asto- ria/Seaside is in charge of the arrangements. BIRTH REGIONAL CITIES Source: Jim Todd, OMSI Hi 58 43 23 25 18 26 70 23 83 35 35 62 61 46 86 43 56 46 45 48 36 49 61 45 47 Baker 12/45 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 Tonight's Sky: Brilliant Orion is big rectangle of bright stars outlines his body, while a short line of three stars in the middle represents his belt. Today Lo 48 21 7 11 11 6 43 17 68 18 21 46 48 31 73 32 54 26 25 26 19 32 45 29 28 La Grande 11/46 Roseburg 25/56 Brookings 37/60 Mar 9 John Day 15/50 Bend 8/51 Medford 22/58 UNDER THE SKY High 7.6 ft. 8.7 ft. Prineville 10/52 Lebanon 20/51 Eugene 20/50 Full Pendleton 20/46 The Dalles 24/50 Portland 27/50 Sunset tonight ........................... 5:37 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 7:22 a.m. Moonrise today ........................... 5:28 a.m. Moonset today ........................... 2:50 p.m. City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC 50 41 Mostly cloudy Tillamook 26/50 SUN AND MOON Time 12:18 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 50 38 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 29/48 Precipitation Sunday ............................................. 0.00" Month to date ................................... 1.71" Normal month to date ....................... 2.97" Year to date .................................... 13.07" Normal year to date ........................ 13.17" Feb 15 FRIDAY REGIONAL WEATHER Astoria through Sunday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 49°/35° Normal high/low ........................... 51°/37° Record high ............................ 66° in 1934 Record low ............................. 21° in 1905 New 50 39 Partly sunny ALMANAC THURSDAY they oversee, saying Wash- ington doesn’t understand the region. Now they have a pow- erful ally in Interior Secre- tary Ryan Zinke, a Montanan who is leading President Don- ald Trump’s charge to roll back environmental regulations and encourage energy develop- ment on public land. Zinke said in Septem- ber he wants to move much of the Interior Department’s decision-making to the West, including the Bureau of Land Management, which is part of the agency. The Washington Post reported last month Zinke’s plan includes dividing his department’s regions along river systems and other nat- ural features instead of state borders, and using them to restructure oversight. A big part of the bureau’s job is to lease drilling, min- ing and grazing rights on pub- lic land to private companies and individuals. That puts it at the center of a heated national debate over how those lands should be managed, and by whom. Some recent disputes: • Much of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, created by President Barack Obama and greatly reduced by Trump, is on Bureau of Land Management land. • Rancher Cliven Bun- dy’s long battle against federal control of public land, which culminated in a 2014 armed standoff in Nevada, began on bureau acreage. • More than 50,000 square miles of Bureau of Land Man- agement land in the West is at the heart of a debate among conservationists, ranchers and energy companies over how much protection to give DEATHS Feb. 11, 2018 HANNEMAN, Jerry Mack, 70, of Chinook, Wash- ington, died in Ilwaco, Wash- ington. Caldwell’s Luce-Lay- ton Mortuary of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. LARSEN, Mary J., 80, of Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. 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