POMPEYS PILLAR — Jeff Kitchens is going to enjoy Clark Days, from the early morning pancakes to the embers glowing in the evening campfire as he tells one last ghost story.
It’s his last day as manager of Pompeys Pillar National Monument before his next post as field manager in the BLM’s Prineville District in Oregon.
Kitchens loves working in the Bureau of Land Management because of the collaborative relationships it requires.
“What makes the job, and the BLM, so unique,” Kitchens said, is the land pattern — while Forest Service land usually has a contiguous boundary BLM land usually evolved from several sources and can form a checkerboard or atypical pattern. read more
