Here is the good news
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has lost more than half of its
Washington-based employees who were slated to move out West as the
agency pushes ahead with a controversial plan to relocate staff. New
internal numbers from the Interior Department obtained by The Hill show
69 employees have left the agency rather than accept the new
assignment. Another 18 left after the plans were announced but before
they could be reassigned. Those 87 employees outnumber the 80 who have agreed to the move.
More good news
“This is a huge brain drain,” said Steve Ellis, who retired from BLM’s
top career-level post in 2016. “There is a lot of really solid expertise
walking out the door.”
Brain drain? No, more like a Swamp Drain
In a meeting with Senate appropriators Wednesday, Interior Secretary
David Bernhardt told lawmakers he was confident the agency would find
quality candidates to replace the departing staffers, including those
needed to fill top positions at the new headquarters. “The caliber of people and number of people applying for these positions is through the roof and phenomenal,” he said.
But
Ellis said the relocation “removes BLM from the sphere of direct
influence in the nation’s capital and critically weakens the agency’s
ability for career leadership and their staff to collaborate across
disciplines and work closely with other key agencies.”
All that pablum about "sphere of direct influence", "career leadership" and "collaborate across disciplines" is pure:
Here is the link to the joyous news.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Friday, March 06, 2020
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