A Bureau of Land Management employee in Colorado faces 18 charges after an investigation found she allegedly obtained resident fishing and hunting licenses and voted absentee in Alaska after moving out of state.

After an inquiry from a Bureau of Land Management investigator, Alaska Wildlife Troopers found that 51-year-old Valerie Baxter obtained resident fishing and hunting licenses between 2019 through 2024 after she transferred jobs out of state.

According to LinkedIn, Baxter worked for the Department of Natural Resources in Alaska before working as a realty specialist for the Bureau of Land Management in Fairbanks. Since 2018, Baxter has worked for the BLM in Carson City, Nevada, Worland, Wyoming, Craig, Colorado and Silt, Colorado. She returned to the Fairbanks office from June 2019-

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