Tracy Stone-Manning will formally step down as director of the Bureau of Land Management on Monday, a week before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
A BLM spokesperson confirmed Wednesday that Stone-Manning’s last day will be Monday, concluding a more than three-year tenure as agency director that focused on rebuilding the bureau after a tumultuous four years that saw the national headquarters moved to Colorado in 2020, then moved back to Washington a year later by the Biden administration.
Nada Wolff Culver, BLM’s principal deputy director, will fill in as director on an acting basis until Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, the spokesperson said.
Stone-Manning and the Wilderness Society announced in November that Stone-Manning will become the conservation group’s new president, starting Feb. 24.
