Doug Vilsack, who has led the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado office since August 2022, is resigning from the bureau rather than accepting a reassignment to a different position.
Vilsack announced the move Wednesday in an email sent to staffers. He is the son of former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who held the position in both the Obama and Biden administrations, as well as serving two terms as the Democratic governor of Iowa.
Doug Vilsack will stay at BLM “through the end of next week,” he wrote in the email.
Vilsack wrote that he has decided to leave rather than accept a reassignment to BLM’s National Operations Center, which supports technical and operations programs across the bureau. The center is located, along with the state office, inside the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood, Colorado.
