The Bureau of Land Management’s one-time headquarters in Grand Junction, Colorado, is finally filling up.
The office, designated a “Western hub” by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland after she moved the BLM headquarters back to Washington in 2021, now has 40 positions assigned to the location, although a significant portion of those staffers aren’t living and working in the Colorado city, but working remotely.
President-elect Donald Trump’s victory last week could mean that many more people end up in Grand Junction, a midsize city in the western part of the state that’s about a four-hour drive from Denver.
In his first term, Trump’s Interior Department moved the bureau headquarters to Colorado. But the majority of relocated staffers left BLM instead, and bureau leadership reported in 2021 that only three people actually moved to Grand Junction.
