From BLM "The Lakeview District has two planning units: the Klamath Falls Resource Area encompassing about 225,000 acres of public lands in southern Klamath County, Oregon and the Lakeview Resource Area encompassing about 3.2 million acres of public lands in Lake and Harney Counties, Oregon."

Total acres managed by the BLM Klamath/Lakeview office exceed 3.4 million acres!

My point is that the Southern Oregon area BLM has plenty of land to manage and work to do and isn't going to "be closed" with 66,500 acres shifted over to Monument lands. Neither will the Medford area BLM.

The Jackson county commissioners, like most O&C county commissioners, are deeply identified with the timber industry. Without an unbiased holistic economic study that accounts for non timber values, your claims regarding the economic losses by extending the monument, configured solely in timber terms, still appear greatly exaggerated.