Colorado Newsline, only three of those employees landed in the new headquarters.
The federal agency’s move out West was a controversial one. The Trump Administration said it was meant to get decision-makers closer to the land and resources they oversee.
George Stone is with the Public Lands Foundation and a former B.L.M. employee. He said the reorganization never made sense.
"A lot of headquarters functions involve budget coordination, national policy, for example, and these are the kinds of things that go on in Washington, D.C. When you try and scatter these functions throughout the West, the coordination collapses. It just does," Stone said.