Ron Huntsinger, Bully Boss
About his tenure as BLM Bakersfield (CA) Field Office Manager
From an interview with Ron Huntsinger in The Bakersfield Californian, By Erin Waldner, March 20, 2004
"I try to have a flexible management style," Huntsinger said. "The way I see it, I'm primarily here to help people do their jobs. I don't like to interfere."
Huntsinger's bio from a BLM announcement of his transfer to Bakersfield
From Ron Huntsinger's former boss
By Dan Rathbun at August 30, 2005
I did not know Marlene, but I do know Ron Huntsinger and the BLM. This comes from 38 years of service with BLM in CO, NM, NV and two tours in the Washington Office (one in the cubicle next to Ron). I have spent enough time to know Ron will humm along with the loudest melody he hears and even try to learnt to sing the lyrics if it will advance his career. He always walks with the wind at his back and salutes the flag on the tallest pole. He is the poster child for telling the boss what he/she wants to hear. Ethics, professional integrity, and moral courage are unknown values in his fabric. To Ron, "CFR" (Code of Federal Regulations) stands for Code of Federal Recommendations; if it is tough or will piss off someone that has dominion over his career you need not follow the CFR. Balanced management means putting the production oriented values on one side of the scale and the protection oriented on the other and shift the pivot point until you get promoted or can transfed out.
I recommended Ron for his selection as the Tonopah Area Manager. You can only begin to imagine my horror as I watched him go native and curry the favor of those political influences that he believed would help him. Ron eroded and unravelled the very good and difficult work his predecessors in accomplished Tonopah. The positive trends and results they achieved in setting proper numbers and season of use for domestic livestock, appropriate management levels for wild horses and protection of critical wildlife habitat were effectively reversed by Ron during his short tenure in central Nevada. I regret my assitance in getting him his assignment there.
I truly wish I could have known Marlene. I wish I could have offered her examples of hope and help provide her the strength to resist the Ron's of the BLM. I wish I could have introduced her to others who have suffered and are suffering her identical situation It is people with her spirit and skill that will develop and implement the policies, plans, practices that protect and sustain America's natural resources. Achieving balanced use of the public resources and sustaining their productivity is one of the most important jobs in public service. Unfortunately, the job is currently being overseen by people like Ron. Decisions that run contrary to good science and inappropriately favor one perspective over another will ultimately demnish the productivity of the land and destroy the natural values that make life not only pleasant, but make it possible.
Fortunately for Marlene's memory there are three branches of government; one to pass the laws, one to carry out (execute) the laws and a third branch which interprets the laws, reverses the actions of those who only pretend to execution of the laws and punishes those violate the laws.
By anonymous, September 21, 2005
It was not just Marlene Braun that had problems with Ron Huntsinger. He does not get along with women very well. It isn't all women, but one's who challenge him on things where he thinks he is the authority. He likes to humiliate women. He once made Marlene leave a room during a meeting like she was kindergartner. When women spoke up during meetings he would ignore them and then if a guy said the same thing he'd respond. He would never look anyone in the eye or say hello or show the least interest in his job except when he wanted his way over something. I know other women he has worked with who could say all the same things. But the vendetta against Marlene got very intense. He behaved like a jerk around other women, but with Marlene, he was crazy in his behavior. It bothers me to see on other website things like Marlene was unstable. These people haven't met Huntsinger. He embodies the term Personality Disorder.
Also read the scathing Nov. 17 letter To Huntsinger from someone who knew him and Marlene
By Anonymous October 30, 2005
Doesn't anyone find it odd, that both Mr. Huntsinger and Mr. Anderson worked in BLM New Mexico at the same time, both came to BLM California at the same time, both went to DC on details, both have EEO complaints and other issues filed against them, and both are being investigated by the OIG at the same time.
Hmmmmm.....are we missing something here? Okay news media, do your own investigation and let us know what you find.
In 2006, Huntsinger left the Bakersfield office. Read the sequel to the Huntsinger story
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