Update 10/12/25 – Subsequent information obtained after publication indicates that the Bureau of Land Management’s Ukiah Field Office did not close and is not expected to close. The office remains operational.
UKIAH, CA., 3/12/25 – The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, plans to close the Bureau of Land Management Field Office in Ukiah, Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, said last month.
The proposed closure is part of a nationwide Trump administration goal to decrease government spending by eliminating “waste, fraud and abuse,” but so far multiple agencies and workers have been caught up in the cuts. Billionaire Elon Musk and his team at DOGE has been assigned the challenge, with the Ukiah field office ending up on the chopping block.
The Ukiah field office manages approximately 270,000 acres of land and 214,000 acres of mineral properties in Colusa, Glenn, Lake, Napa, Marin, Solano, Sonoma, and Yolo counties and a portion of Mendocino County.
Three popular protected areas fall under the Ukiah field office’s jurisdiction: The California Coastal Monument, including cattle grazing lands along state Highway 1 and hiking grounds surrounding Point Arena Lighthouse; Cow Mountain Recreation Area, located just outside of Ukiah and popular with hunters, campers and off-road vehicle enthusiasts, and Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, an expansive protected space managed in partnership with the National Forest Service known for being one of the most biologically diverse in the state. The office also manages The Geysers, an isolated area straddling the Sonoma-Lake County border that is home to the world’s largest geothermal field.
The role of the Ukiah field office is vast. Closing the office may impact a wide range of activities, including grazing permits for ranchers, campground and trail management, wildfire prevention measures, habitat conservation projects, hunting and off-road vehicle permitting, mining and drilling permits, renewable energy projects, historical preservation work, the policing of poaching and environmental education outreach.
The Bureau of Land Management falls under the purview of the U.S. Department of the Interior. According to a list published by the General Service Administration, 164 offices are slated for closure across the country under DOGE. Offices at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service are also scheduled to close.
The Ukiah field office is the only office impacting Mendocino County and the Bay Area that the department plans to close as part of the Department of the Interior closures according to the GSA. It is set to close by August 31.
The Mendocino Voice reached out to the Bureau of Land Management and General Services Administration and have yet to receive a response.
The Mendocino Voice is writing an investigative piece about the impacts of this closure. If you have tips or information, please email info@mendovoice.com. Anonymous tips are welcome, too.
I LOVE IT! MAGA!
the only silver lining of the MAGA movement is that idiots all have a slogan and matching red hats to warn people of their complete worldly ignorance
The picture isn’t of the Ukiah BLM office. The picture is of the County’s Social Services department. *Facepalm*
Not correct. This is a pic of the building that does career services and also blm office. Social services office is separate and in the middle of town.
I stand corrected. I guess my point was that these doors don’t lead to a BLM Office. The picture could have been the correct set of doors
That’s your concern here? People like you are why stupid things are happening.
Closing of Cow Mountain of our recreation vehicle dirt bikes riding with our kids is not the answer. I hope that this does not.
Good work America, FAFO.
Trump said we should be raking the forest, fires start on blm and national forest every year, he has no plans to manage the lands owned by the federal government but he loves to talk trash about mismanagement.
We should be raking the forest!
Biggest fire in california, the August complex, started on the mendocino National forest. What happens when the forest service employees are gone?
He is a flamboyant city boy with zero interest in any land management
If he pissed in their cheetos, they’d say thank you.
Freedom Juice!
Wait till they find out about eyster
What do you mean?
MAGA 👏👏👏👏
Love all the liberal tears…
How many folks with big fancy houses right up in the canyons near cow mountain do you reckon are liberal vs conservative? When the mountain burns again, when not if, and this time it’s worse, hotter, faster etc. It will claim homes, it may claim lives.
It won’t just be “liberal tears” then.
You are cheering on the people poking holes in the boat we’re all sitting in, cuz “lol lib tears”.
Understand this my friend, when this boat sinks, YOU Will Drown Too! Or Burn in the case may be. der Schwachkopf
lol you’re so proud you can’t even use your own name! #losing #FAFO
We’re all gonna laugh when your 401(k) is a 001(k) due to Trump’s tariffs and reckless “governance.”
Amazing just how incredibly stoopid one must be to back the Raping Traitorous Buffoon as he destroys programs and depts that keep our country rolling along , indiscriminately firing innocent workers for the sole benefit of himself and the billionaire boys club they don’t belong to. If your for MAGA you’re a TRAITOR .
What part of inflicting pain and depression on people’s lives improves your life? You love tears and consider yourself a patriotic American Christian man of family values and law and order? First off, it’s hard for me to believe you LOVE anything at all, and if you love tears, you have a distorted version of love. How does this improve your life? There are many people who are impacted in a real negative way and you claim to LOVE their misery, while this does ABSOLUTELY nothing to improve your life! You think the DOGE is “saving” our country money, then they just give it to you?! What part of tears do you love? Because loving tears sounds like something a bully would say, especially when you’re probably so poorly educated because you got kicked out of school for fighting, cutting, or defying a teacher,,,, acting like a tough jerk off, will make you turn into a tough jerk off,,,, acting like a compassionate, reasonable, adult will help turn you into a human being
Trumpers are incredibly stupid… give away the country so the rich can have more. Keep cow mountain open.
8 yrs of Obama/biden gave us Trump, then 4 more yrs of Biden gave us Trump..it has taken many yrs to get the country in the state its in now..im ready for Trump 2.0..really drain the swamp this time,biden worst potus ever..God bless the USA,,until I see a better choice im Trump ,,truly..xtp
Trump IS the Swamp! How do you like your George Soros protege as Secretary of the Treasury?
Good, these kinds of cush paper pushing jobs need to be cut back. It is a “boys” club at these kinds of offices, and we are better off with at least a slimming down of things. Thank you doge for saving tax paying Americans from waste!
I know an employee there who is literally a hard-working person, who is not a “paper pusher,” but routinely out in the field making sure things are available to those who enjoy BLM lands.
DOGE, run by the GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS MADE ME RICH man, Elon Musk.
Closing any BLM field office would be a mistake I know that there are far less important fields of interest that we don’t need the state already waste too much money look at Gavin newsom for example he waste money every day he wakes up and what about that bullet train okay well that’s a fast piece of crap that sucked up money like you know what
It is incredible how ignorant people really are, how can you not appreciate what DOGE is doing? We are finally going to get some stability and accountability back in our government. I guess you libtards would rather just keep going trillions of dollars in debt and make sure that the guy that dresses like a girl gets to go to the bathroom and compete in girls sports with our wives, girlfriends, sisters and daughters? Or better yet let’s spend billions of our tax dollars for people in our military to get sex changes? Yeah I see it now, the way ol sleepy joe and that phsyco were doing things were so much better, silly me. Maybe instead of running around calling people stupid you guys should stop for a second and look at the bigger picture of what is going on, make sure you do that while you are staring at yourself in the mirror because if you calling people stupid is not the pot calling the kettle black then I have no idea what is. Come on people get your heads out of your butt’s and figure it out. If anyone can help fix our giant Debt problem that just continues to grow at an alarming rate, then tell me who would be better than the richest guy in the world?
The richest guy in the world whose fortune is largely GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.
If Trump and Musk were serious, they would have started with the “Federal” Reserve and the Pentagram. How many trillions are “missing” from the Pentagram now? Rumsfeld admitted they “could not account” for trillions on 9/10/2001 (nice date, eh?). More were admitted more recently.
Historical Democratic policies have been far more fiscally sound than conservative policies…if we all seem confused it’s because no one is pointing out that the debt goes down on average with Democrats and the debt blows up with Republicans…supply side economics does not work….please for the love of all humanity look it up just google it…your kids can show you how…yet the Republicans give you a bunch of buzzwords and slogans and you latch on rather than research. The 2 party system is dizzying in its wrongness….people are not the priority corporations are. Lobbying is legalized bribery. National Park service actually had one of the highest returns on investment. I suspect BLM has similar numbers. It attracts consumers to local businesses. Go after the actual problem not the US worker…again.just the smallest amount of research will show that responsible fiscal management is not based on cutting jobs. Hard to believe that there just can’t be a happy medium party. We have a billionaire who claims to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative waving a chainsaw around callously mocking the destruction of families’ livelihoods while also having rich dem and rep perfecting insider trading…how are the us workers responsible for that kind of corruption. And a voter base that is so frustrated that they just buy what the right are selling even when they see it’s lies…the person next to you isn’t the threat..
yet.Job loss leads to desperate measures to care for your people. Next will be squatters in the BLM Land. Because no one is there to stop it and there is no other option for the desperate families.
I appreciated very much reading this, the only intelligent comment of course posted all the way down at the very bottom. Refreshing facts that again prove reality has a liberal bias.
Google is always right? If that is where you think research is done then I honestly feel bad for you. You’re definitely right about the 2 party bs though. Both sides have gone batshit crazy! Also I would imagine that Elon would benefit more from doing right for the country’s sake, but i could be wrong. Personally I don’t believe much of what I read online, more do I trust anything that the government says or does. Our nation is in serious trouble, and as far as I am concerned having a guy like Elon involved with the financial side of things is definitely something different. We can’t afford to just let things continue to go the way that they have been going, maybe he will turn things around for us? We need a miracle and I am willing to give him a chance, not that it matters what I think
Sarah your article is flawed from the first paragraph. First DOGE doesn’t “close” anything, it just makes recommendations. Second your information “source” is Jared Huffman who is a demonstrated alarmist suffering from acute TDS with severe allergies to truth. He is NOT a good source. But again maybe that is your goal is to spread the fear and propaganda. Anyways, everything will be fine and we will be able to get along with a little less government employees. The BLM operations that run out of the office will not all go away.
destroying our environment to own the libs! what a time to be alive!
but really, the fact that anybody can see what’s happening and not be vehemently opposed is a testament to the stupidity, ignorance, and shortsightedness of our population, as well as the (lack of) efficacy of our public schooling. this is atrocious on every conceivable level – for our environment, for the citizens, for our economy. i am absolutely appalled by our government and (some of) this comment section
@Miserable time to be coming of age aka Miserable human being- Nobody asked for your libtarded opinion. You probably protest for sex changes for children didn’t you? Or maybe you are one of the tranny’s that don’t get to read books to children in schools anymore and that is why you are so concerned about “public schooling” isn’t it,