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HISTORICAL RECORD
OF THE
OFFICES AND OFFICE MANAGERS
OF THE
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
U. S.
AND ITS PREDECESSOR AGENCIES,
THE GRAZING SERVICE, THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE
AND THE O&C REVESTED LANDS ADMINISTRATION
1934-1998
Prepared By
THE PUBLIC LANDS FOUNDATION
December 1998
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Introduction 1
Grazing Service 2
General Land Office 5
O&C Revested Lands Administration 8
Merger of GS, GLO, and O&C 8
BLM Organizations and Reorganizations 9
BLM Directors 9
Regional Office Organization 9
Area Office Organization 10
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State Office Organization 11
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District/Field Office Organization 11
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BLM merger w.ith M.MS ... 15
Historical Rec.ord of.Offic.es an.d Man.agers 16
Alaska ..... 16
Arizona ..... 24
California .... 32
Colorad.o ..... 49
Eastern States 61
Idaho ..... 64
Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota 81
Nevada ..... 98
New Mexico a.nd Ok.laho.ma .. 112
Oregon 125
Washington ..... 147
Utah 149
Wyoming 167
Special Offices
DSC, PSC, MLRB, NTC, NIFC OCS 180
Land Offices Appendix 1
Missouri River Basin Project Appendix 2
List of Office Managers Appendix 3
PREFACE
This report has been prepared by the Public Lands Foundation to document the
organizational history of the U. S. Bureau of Land Management and the line
office managers who have headed the principal offices of the agency. Since the
roots of the Bureau of Land Management 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. This
Historical Record was prepared in recognition and remembrance of the leaders
who have 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.
In addition to listing the offices and office managers, this report also includes a
history of the organizational changes that have occured in the BLM, beginning
with the Regional and Area Organizations, and later with the State Offices and
the Districts, Resource Areas and now Field Offices.
This listing of office managers includes nearly 1300 names of the line managers
who headed the offices of the BLM, Grazing Service, General Land Office and
O&C Administration during the 1934 - 1998 period. However, the listing does
not include the names of 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 report has been prepared by Glendon E. and Marion Collins with the
following persons being the principal contributors of information from each state.
Alaska -
Jim Richardson, Robert Krumm, Carl Jeglum, and Dick Quintas.
Arizona -
William Barker, Lynn Saline, Marvin Woodbury and Joy Gilbert
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 and Gerald Brandvold
Colorado -
Marlyn V. Jones, Andy Senti, Sherri Bell, Donnie Sparks and Carroll Levitt
Eastern States -
George Lea, Cathy Applegate, Doris Koivula, Larry Johnson, Jerry Heinz,
Tom Roessler and Robert Todd
Idaho -
Jack Wilson, Bill Mathews, Clair Whitlock, Delmar Vale, Joe Fallini, Jack
Sept, Fritz Rennebaum, Ted Graf, Don Watson, Larry Bardsley, Erick
Kurkowski, Les Rosenkrance, Clark Noble, Dean Durfee, Loren Anderson
and Bill Baker.
Montana -
Neil Morck, Ed Zaidlicz, Tom Steger, Shirley Legg, Bill Cutler, Don
Nelson, Joe Gibson, Bill Mcllvain and Gene Newell.
Nevada -
Fred Wolf, Carol Hadley, Jodie Wooden, Rod Harris, Ron Wenker, Clair
Whitlock, Monte Rohwer, Frank Shields, Ed Spang, Jim Hogan, Albert
Simpson, Neil Van Zandt and Dan Baker.
New Mexico -
Robert Wilber, Morris Trogstad, John "Buster" Riley, Dave Kathman and
Phil Keasling.
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 and Joe Buesing.
Utah-
Stu Carlson, Robert D. Nielson, Ed Cox Cliff Yardley, Frank Shields,
,
Hall McClain, Rex Rowley, George Cropper, Sheridan Hansen, Keith
Norris, Scott Packer and H. Byron Mock.
Wyoming -
Nyles Humphrey, Jack Wilson, James O'Conner, Rex Colton, Burt
Silcock, Max Bridge and Mary Apple.
Land Offices -
Ted Bingham
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Offices -
Ed Hoffman
Other sources of information were "Opportunity and Challenge - The Story of
BLM"; BLM 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.
A copy of this report has been filed in the Public Lands Foundation Archives
located at the BLM's National Training Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
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 Managers Project,
Public Lands Foundation Archives, c/o BLM National Training Center, 9828
North 31st Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85051
HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE OFFICES AND OFFICE MANAGERS
OF THE
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
U. S.
AND ITS PREDECESSOR AGENCIES,
THE GRAZING SERVICE, THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
AND THE O&C REVESTED LANDS ADMINISTRATION
1934-1998
INTRODUCTION
The Public Lands Foundation has prepared this report to provide an historical
record of the principal field offices of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
since the establishment of the agency in 1946, and the names, titles and dates
of tenure of the managers who have headed these offices.
This record includes the Washington Headquarters Office, State Offices, District
Offices, Resource Area Offices, Field Offices, Land Offices, Service Center
Offices, Outer Continental Shelf Offices, and some special purpose offices of the
Bureau of Land Management; and the managers who have headed these
offices.
The listings of offices includes both existing offices and former offices that have
been redesignated and/or closed by reorganizations. Offices that are listed in
bold type currently exist in 1998. Offices that have been closed or
redesignated as a result of reorganizations are listed in non-bold type.
For offices that originated in the Grazing Service and O&C Revested Lands
Administration, the names of the pre-1946 District Graziers and District
Foresters are included where the information is available.
The listings of State Directors in the individual States also includes the State
Supervisors who held the State Office positions during the 1954 - 1961 Area
Office organization. The listing of District Managers includes the District Range
Managers and District Foresters who held these positions prior to about 1958.
To help explain the BLM organization and the changes that have been made in
position titles and office locations, this historical record also describes the major
organizational changes which the BLM has made in the field offices over the
past 50 years. Brief historical information about the formation of many of the
individual offices is also included.
This historical record begins with background information on the organizations
and managers of the three agencies, the Grazing Service, the General Land
Office and the O&C Revested Lands Administration, which were merged in 1946
to form the BLM. The BLM's field office organization has evolved out of the
organizational structure which the BLM inherited from these three agencies, and
many of the leaders of the Bureau during its early decades came from these
three predecessor agencies.
GRAZING SERVICE 1934-1946
Grazing Service was established as the Division of Grazing in the Department of
the Interior in 1934, to implement the Taylor Grazing Act's provisions for
authorizing livestock grazing on the public domain lands in 10 western states. It
was renamed the Grazing Service in 1939, but continued to operate as part of
the Office of the Secretary of the Interior until July 11, 1944, when it was
established as an operating Bureau of the Department. In 1941, the Grazing
Service headquarters was moved from Washington, DC to Salt Lake City, Utah,
a temporary arrangement during World War
II.
GRAZING SERVICE DIRECTORS
Ferrington R. Carpenter 1934 - 1938
Richard H. Rutledge 1938 - 1944
Clarence Forsling 1944 - 1946
Grazing Service Director Carpenter's original intention was to administer the
Grazing Service's program with 20 federal employees who would guide local
Advisory Boards composed of livestock operators in setting up the Grazing
Districts, allocating grazing livestock numbers and issuing grazing permits.
These first 20 employees were Depue Falck, John Deeds, Archie D. Ryan, G. M.
Kerr, J. Q. Peterson, Joe Leech, Marvin Klemme, E. R. (Tiny) Greenslet, Robert
E. Morgan, Albion D. (Bud) Molohan, Charles F. (Frank) Moore, C. F.(Bud)
Dierking, Milo Deming, Perry T. Williams, Warren R. Scholes, Luster R. Brooks,
Ed Keefe, E. H. Frenzell, Gaylor G. Frazier, and Albert Shunk.
Begining in 1935, 10 Regional Grazing Offices were established in the western
states. These Regional Grazing Offices were staffed with the 20 men listed
above who were appointed to positions of Regional Graziers and Graziers
Aides. Their job was to organize Grazing Districts and District Advisory Boards
composed of livestock operators, and to assist these Advisory Boards in
authorizing livestock grazing on the large areas of public domain lands within
the established Grazing Districts.
The following is a list of the Regional Grazing Offices, their locations and the
Regional Graziers, taken primarily from 1936 - 1941 editions of "The Grazing
