BLM staff shuffling moves senior official, state directors

By Scott Streater | 12/09/2025 01:44 PM EST

The changes include naming a new acting director of the National Conservation Lands and Community Partnerships, which oversees national monuments and other landmarks.

Sign for the Bureau of Land Management.

The Bureau of Land Management is shifting around acting state directors and named a new acting director of the National Conservation Lands and Community Partnerships. Francis Chung/POLITICO

The Bureau of Land Management is shaking up its senior leadership in multiple states and at least one major BLM program, according to three Interior Department officials with knowledge of the moves.

The changes that senior officials began sharing with staffers Monday include reassigning officials to fill at least three state director’s posts in Idaho, Oregon-Washington and Utah with new acting directors transferred from other offices or states.

They also include relocating the assistant director who oversees management of dozens of national monuments and other protected lands managed by the bureau.

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The Interior Department and BLM declined to comment.

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