The U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s upcoming reorganization is expected to lead to 18 more BLM jobs in Idaho.
According to the U.S. Department of the Interior, fourteen of those jobs are rangeland management positions currently in Washington, D.C., that will move to the Gem State. Four more positions will be allocated to the BLM’s state office in Boise.
The extra capacity will expand and enhance the state’s grazing program.
Nearly all BLM-administered lands are west of the Mississippi River, mostly in the Intermountain West and West Coast states.
The BLM and U.S. Forest Service are the main agencies that administer federally owned public lands in Idaho, with BLM land concentrated in the southern part of the state. The bureau manages some 12 million acres in Idaho, or a quarter of the state’s total land area.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced earlier this week that the BLM’s headquarters will move from Washington, D.C., to Grand Junction, Colorado, and many D.C.-based jobs will move there and to other western cities.
Eleven western states in all will gain BLM jobs in the change. (Post Register)
