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This is an exceptional 1878 map of the island of Lanai, in the Hawaiian Islands, prepared for the 1900 Report of the Governor of the Territory of Hawaii to the Secretary of the Interior. Although the cartographic work that produced this map was started in 1878, during the Hawaiian Monarchy, the map itself, and the report that contained it, was issued following the U.S. Government s 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Republic. The Report was an attempt to assess and examine the newly created Hawaiian Territory s potential for Americanized administration and development. Consequently, the map focuses on Public Lands, Homestead Settlement Tracts, Grazing Lands, Pineapple Lands, Sugar Plantations, Forest Reserves, Forest Lands, Wet Lands, etc. It also features both practical and topographic details for use in administering the region. The governor at this time was George R. Carter.
“Pretty much every community in the west that thought they might have the office space put forward a proposal,” says Jessica Rose Crowder, a former natural resources policy advisor for the Wyoming governor, Matt Mead.
This wasn’t the first time a proposal to move west had been put on the table. In 1941, the United States Grazing Service, precursor to the BLM‚ was moved to Salt Lake City; in the 1990s, the BLM moved all its wildfire and aviation staff to Boise, Idaho. But both times, the agency wound up back in Washington.
This time, the administration chose Grand Junction, Colorado, a city of 60,000 located at the western edge of the state. Only 27 high-level jobs will be located at the new headquarters; some 300 are being scattered among state and field offices throughout the west. A small number of jobs, mostly related to Freedom of Information Act requests and budget, will remain in Washington. The move is now under way; the agency’s Washington DC lease expires at the