Career employees exited the #Interior Dept in droves during #Trump’s 4 yrs in office. At the end of his presidency, there were 4,900 fewer employees at the agency…, acc/to data from the OPM.
The exodus was especially large at #DOI’s Bureau of Land Management, which oversees roughly 245 million acres of #PublicLand. After Trump briefly moved the BLM’s HQ from DC to Grand Junction, CO, >87% of the employees either resigned or retired.
The #Interior Dept — which manages vast swaths of #PublicLand & federal #water & oversees everything from offshore #oil #drilling to #EndangeredSpecies #protections —could come under intense scrutiny in a 2nd #Trump admin.
In an interview …Trump was asked about govt programs that he would slash in a 2nd term. “We’re going to do, like, Department of Interior,” he said in response.
It remains unclear whether Trump wants to eliminate the #DOI or merely reduce its budget & staffing levels.
Happy anniversary to @channelislandsnps, which became #publicland #onthisday in 1980. This dazzling National Park protects the islands and waters of California’s coast and a host of species only found in this region of the world
#FindYourPark #photography https://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?rb=1&short=2oicE7a
