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BLM headquarters move to Colorado would add only about 85 workers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The U.S. Department of the Interior made it official Tuesday — it plans to move the headquarters of its Bureau of Land Management to Grand Junction — but that means only about 85 extra BLM employees in Colorado. Grand Junction could gain as few as 27 jobs —…
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Gardner: BLM will announce Grand Junction as new headquarters
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado confirmed Monday that the Trump administration will seek to move the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to Grand Junction. “Today is a historic day for our nation’s public lands, Western states and the people of Colorado,” Gardner said in a statement. “Relocating the Bureau of Land Management to the…
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Gardner: BLM will announce Grand Junction as new headquarters
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado confirmed Monday that the Trump administration will seek to move the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to Grand Junction. “Today is a historic day for our nation’s public lands, Western states and the people of Colorado,” Gardner said in…
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Western governors at Colorado meeting call on Congress to simplify federal-state land exchanges
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save VAIL — Western governors, meeting in Colorado this week, called on Congress to simplify land exchanges between the federal government and states in order to reduce problems resulting from “checkerboard land ownership” across the West. In a resolution adopted Wednesday by the Western Governors Association, which…
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Western governors at Colorado meeting call on Congress to simplify federal-state land exchanges
VAIL — Western governors, meeting in Colorado this week, called on Congress to simplify land exchanges between the federal government and states in order to reduce problems resulting from “checkerboard land ownership” across the West. In a resolution adopted Wednesday by the Western Governors Association, which represents 19 western states and three Pacific territories, the governors also…
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Interior’s Bernhardt talks BLM’s potential westward move in Colorado visit
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save VAIL • U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said Monday that his department is determining if each job in the Bureau of Land Management is necessary and if it belongs in Washington, D.C., before recommending whether to move the agency’s headquarters to a Western state. Speaking…
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Interior’s Bernhardt talks BLM’s potential westward move in Colorado visit
VAIL • U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said Monday that his department is determining if each job in the Bureau of Land Management is necessary and if it belongs in Washington, D.C., before recommending whether to move the agency’s headquarters to a Western state. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Western Governors Association in…
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BEST OF COPO 2018 | Grand Junction shines as D.C. eyes new home for BLM
Colorado Politics is taking a look back at some of our most significant and compelling stories of 2018. This story originally was published May 25. Last month, after French President Emmanuel Macron addressed a joint meeting of Congress, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado quickly caught up to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on the House…