The Trump administration is seeking to lay off nearly 200 Coloradans who work for the Department of the Interior managing public lands and conducting ecological research.

The planned cuts were outlined in a filing made public Monday in an ongoing federal court case stemming from a lawsuit by two labor unions seeking to halt the layoffs.

In total, the department plans to eliminate more than 2,000 jobs across the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey and the department’s administrative offices.

In Colorado, the proposed cuts include: • 87 of the 177 positions (49%) in the Bureau of Land Management’s National Operations Center in Denver • 33 of the 595 positions (6%) in the BLM Colorado

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