{"id":2446364,"date":"2019-07-15T14:52:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=309473"},"modified":"2019-07-15T14:52:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:52:51","slug":"sen-cory-gardner-blm-headquarters-moving-to-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/sen-cory-gardner-blm-headquarters-moving-to-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Cory Gardner: BLM headquarters moving to Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/01\/sessionspot-atd-010518-1-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/01\/sessionspot-atd-010518-1-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/01\/sessionspot-atd-010518-1-1-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/01\/sessionspot-atd-010518-1-1-325x212.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, on Sept. 20, 2017.<\/strong><br \/><em>AP | AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>DENVER \u2014 Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner says the Trump administration is moving the headquarters of the federal government\u2019s largest land agency to Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner said Monday the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s Washington office will move to Grand Junction.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner didn\u2019t say when it would move. A Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman in Washington said she couldn\u2019t confirm or deny the move. She declined to give her name.<\/p>\n<p>The agency manages nearly 388,000 square miles of public land, and 99% is in 12 Western states.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner and other Western politicians have long argued the agency headquarters should be closer to the land it manages.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has about 9,000 employees, with fewer than 400 in Washington. The rest are scattered among 140 state, district or field offices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/sen-cory-gardner-blm-headquarters-moving-to-colorado\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, on Sept. 20, 2017.AP | AP DENVER \u2014 Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner says the Trump administration is moving the headquarters of the federal government\u2019s largest land agency to Colorado. Gardner said Monday the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 09:27:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}