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Historical Record of the Offices, Managers and Organizations of the U. S. Bureau of Land Management, Grazing Service, General Land Office and O&C Revested Lands Administration 1934 - 2012 Prepared by The Public Lands Foundation April 2012 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS page Preface . 3 Historical Record . 6 Grazing Service (GS) . 7 General Land Office (GLO) . 10 O&C Revested Lands Administration (O&C). 13 Merger of GS, GLO, and O&C to form BLM. 14 BLM Merger with MMS . 15 BLM Organizations and Reorganizations 16 BLM Directors . 16 Regional Office Organization . 16 Area Office Organization . 18 State Office Organization . 19 District/Field Office Organization. 19 Factors Which Influenced the Growth and Evolution of the BLM . 25 Historical Record of Offices and Managers 32 Alaska . 32 Arizona . 42 California . 54 Colorado . 74 Eastern States . 92 Idaho . 98 Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota 118 Nevada . 138 New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas . 156 Oregon and Washington . 172 Utah . 200 Wyoming . 222 Special Offices DSC, PSC, NOC, NTC, NIFC, OCS 236 and MRBLCP Appendix 1 List of Grazing Districts . 241 Appendix 2 Alphabetical List of Managers with 243 Offices and Dates of Tenure 2 PREFACE This report has been prepared for the Public Lands Foundation (PLF) by Glendon E. Collins, Secretary of the PLF, as part of the PLF’s project to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the establishment of the General Land Office. It documents the organizational history of the U. S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the line office managers who have headed the principal offices of the agency. Since the roots of the BLM are in the Grazing Service, the General Land Office and the O&C Revested Lands Administration, this record includes the offices and managers of those agencies as well. This report began as a project undertaken by the Public Lands Foundation to help the Bureau of Land Management celebrate its 50th Anniversary on July 16, 1996. On that date the PLF presented BLM with a "Historical Record of Bureau of Land Management Office Managers 1946 - 1996" that included the names and dates of tenure of BLM's State Directors and District Managers. That Historical Record was prepared in recognition and remembrance of the leaders who had guided the agency in its mission to protect and manage the public lands of the United States. At the annual PLF Conference in Denver in September 1996, the members present decided that the Historical Record should be expanded to include managers of Resource Area Offices, Land Offices, Service Centers, and other special offices of the Bureau. So an October 1998 edition of the “Historical Record of the Offices and Office Managers of the U. S. Bureau of Land Management and Its Predecessor Agencies, the Grazing Service, The General Land Office and the O&C Revested Lands Administration, 1934 - 1998” was prepared and printed. Copies were presented to the BLM and are on file in the PLF Archives located at the BLM National Training Center in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to listing the offices and office managers, the 1998 report also included a history of the organizational changes that have occurred in the BLM, beginning with the Regional and Area Organizations, and later with the State Offices and the District Offices, Resource Area Offices and Field Offices. In 2012, the Public Lands Foundation sponsored a “GLO Project” to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the establishment of the General Land Office in 1812. As part of this GLO Project, the 1998 edition of the “Historical Record” was updated to include the 1998 - 2012 information regarding offices, managers and organizational changes. This “Historical Record of BLM Offices, Managers and Organizations,” completed in April 2012, is a “genealogy” of the BLM: • it describes the evolution of the organizational structures of the BLM and its predecessor agencies: - the General Land Office, the Grazing Service, and the Oregon & California Revested Lands Administration; and • it lists the names of the nearly 1600 line managers who headed the various offices of these agencies during the 1934 - 2012 period. However, the lists do not include the names of the many other BLM leaders whose contributions were made in Associate, Assistant and Staff positions in the Washington Office, State Office and District Offices during this same period. The following persons have been the principal contributors of information about each state. 3 Alaska: Jim Richardson, Robert Krumm, Carl Jeglum, Dick Quintas, Sandy Dunn, Sharon Wilson, Theresa McPherson, Karen Kelleher, Lenore Heppler, Bev Fronterhouse and George Browning. Arizona: William Barker, Lynn Saline, Marvin Woodbury, Marion Collins, Jill Withrow, Joy Gilbert, Tom Dabbs, and Mike Henderson. California: Jean Dubois, Lou Boll, Robert McCarthy, Rolla "Spud" Chandler, Nolan Keil, Robert Fay, Cliff Yardley, Robert Archibald, Mario Lopez, Ron Fellows, Joe Wagner, Otto L. Krueger, Gerald Brandvold, Jim Abbott, and Michelle DiPinto. Colorado: Marlyn V. Jones, Andy Senti, Sherri Bell, Donnie Sparks, Carroll Levitt, Mike Ferguson, Helen Hankins, and John Mehlhoff. Eastern States: George Lea, Cathy Applegate, Doris Koivula, Larry Johnson, Jerry Heinz, Tom Roessler, Robert Todd, Bruce Dawson, and Martha Malik. Idaho: Jack Wilson, Bill Mathews, Clair Whitlock, Delmar Vail, Joe Fallini, Jack Sept, Fritz Rennebaum, Ted Graf, Don Watson, Larry Bardsley, Erick Kurkowski, Les Rosenkrance, Clark Noble, Dean Durfee, Loren Anderson, Bill Baker, John R. Christensen, Terry Costello, Anna Steele, and Lorraine Graves. Montana/Dakotas: Neil Morck, Ed Zaidlicz, Tom Steger, Shirley Legg, Bill Cutler, Don Nelson, Joe Gibson, Bill McIlvain, Gene Newell, Bill Noble, Jamie Connell and Chuck Sandau. Nevada: Fred Wolf, Carol Hadley, Jodie Wooden, Rod Harris, Clair Whitlock, Monte Rohwer, Frank Shields, Ed Spang, Jim Hogan, Albert Simpson, Dan Baker, Neil Van Zandt and Ron Wenker. New Mexico/Oklahoma/Texas: Robert Wilber, Morris Trogstad, John "Buster" Riley, Dave Kathman, Phil Keasling, Jesse Juen, Tom Gow, Rosemary Herrell, Ed Singleton, and Joel Farrell. Oregon/Washington: Robert Rivers, Bill Leavell, Pat Clason, Gene Peterson, Robert Mollohan, Joe Dose, Stan Butzer, Van Manning, Steve Armitage, Rich Dreyhobl,Carroll Dubuar, Bill Bones, Joe Buesing, Otto Krueger, Mark Lawrence Jr., Ralph Thomas, Kathy Knowles, William O’Sullivan, Sandie Gourdin, Dayne Barron, Elaine Zielinski, and Dick Prather. Utah: Stu Carlson, Robert D. Nielson, Ed Cox , Cliff Yardley, Frank Shields, Hall McClain, Rex Rowley, George Cropper, Sheridan Hansen, Keith Norris, Scott Packer, H. Byron Mock, Ken Harrison, Sandy Jewks, Larry Crutchfield, Amy Adams, and Sue Fivecoat 4 Wyoming: Nyles Humphrey, Jack Wilson, James O'Conner, Rex Colton, Burt Silcock, Max Bridge, Mary Apple, Bill LeBarron, Don Simpson, and Beverly Gorny. Land Offices: Ted Bingham Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Offices: Ed Hoffman Other sources of information were: • "Opportunity and Challenge - The Story of BLM," • the BLM’s website, organization charts, Manpower Reports, "Personnel Highlights" and other special publications, • the Grazing Service's publications "The Grazing Bulletin" and "The Range Rider," • Annual Reports of the General Land Office, and • the sometimes faulty memories of several hundred BLM retirees and employees. Copies of this report have been filed in the Public Lands Foundation Archives located at the BLM's National Training Center in Phoenix, Arizona, and in the BLM Library in Denver. Copies have also been sent to BLM Offices. The Public Lands Foundation has attempted to make this record as complete and accurate as possible, but undoubtedly there are errors and omissions in the names and dates of tenure. You can help the Public Lands Foundation correct, expand and update this record by sending information to the “Historical Record” files in the Public Lands Foundation Archives, c/o BLM National Training Center, 9828 North 31st Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85051. THE PUBLIC LANDS FOUNDATION P. O. Box 7226 Arlington Virginia 22207 The Public Lands Foundation (PLF) is a national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 1987 that advocates for the retention of America’s public lands in public hands, professionally and sustainably managed for responsible common use and enjoyment. PLF’s membership is made up primarily of retired Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employees, and represents a broad spectrum of knowledge and professional experience in public land managemenmt. The PLF has a shared interest in the management of the public lands in the National System of Public Lands, which is managed by the BLM for the benefit of our communities, for future generations and under the principles of multiple use. 5 HISTORICAL RECORD of the OFFICES, MANAGERS and ORGANIZATIONS of the U. S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, GRAZING SERVICE, and O&C REVESTED LANDS ADMINISTRATION 1934 - 2012 INTRODUCTION The Public Lands Foundation (PLF) has prepared this report to provide an historical record of the principal offices of the U. S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and its predecessor agencies, and the names, titles and dates of tenure of the managers who have headed these offices during the 1934 - 2012 period. The General Land Office (GLO) was created by Congress in 1812 to administer the disposal of the public domain lands. The Grazing Service was created by the Department of the Interior in 1934 to administer livestock grazing on the remaining public domain lands as authorized by the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. The Oregon & California (O&C) Revested Lands Administration was created in 1937 to manage the timber resources on the railroad grant lands in western Oregon which had been returned (revested) to federal ownership in 1916. The O&C organization was assigned to the General Land Office. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was created by Congress in 1946, by the merger of the General Land Office, the Grazing Service, and the O&C Revested Lands Administration. This “Historical Record of Offices, Managers and Organizations” includes the Washington Headquarters Office and the State and Local Offices of these four organizations, and the list of line managers who have headed these offices.