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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
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BISSON, Cassandra and
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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.
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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
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5:30 p.m., work session, City
Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Warrenton City Commission, 6
p.m., City Hall, 225 S. Main Ave.
Lewis & Clark Fire Department
Board, 7 p.m., main fire station,
34571 Highway 101 Business.
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