Retired US public lands managers criticize Trump plans

DENVER (AP) — Former public lands managers are heaping criticism on a Trump administration plan to move the headquarters of the nation’s largest land agency from Washington to the West.
Thirty retired executives from the Bureau of Land Management said Thursday moving the bureau headquarters to Grand Junction, Colorado, and dispersing managers across 11 Western states could lead to worse stewardship of public lands.
In a letter to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, who oversees the b