Christopher “Kit” Muller
Lifetime Service Award

The Public Lands Foundation grants to Christopher “Kit” Muller its Lifetime Service Award for excellence in public land management. The Foundation provides this award to deserving Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employees who have perpetuated and enhanced the proud tradition of public service.

Kit was born and raised in Eastern Montana and graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1972. After working briefly for Senator Lee Metcalf in Washington, D.C., he then worked for several years lobbying and creating partnerships dealing with coal and utilities management.

After completing a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley, Kit began his 38-year career with the BLM. While Kit’s career spanned almost four decades in Washington, D.C., his heart and soul were always committed to the people on the ground, in the Field Offices, and the local communities dependent on healthy public lands.

His accomplishments are many in his service as the International Affairs Division Chief and as Strategic Planner. He was instrumental in the creation and success of numerous BLM initiatives including BLM’s Blueprint for the Future, the 1994 BLM Summit, the Assessment Inventory and Monitoring effort, the National Conservation Lands System, Budget Re-engineering, and Leadership Succession Planning. Up until his retirement in 2018, Kit used his unique understanding of the need to integrate science and management to push BLM leadership to set a vision for future resource management and desired land health conditions. Kit Muller truly made a difference.

Kit passed away on December 6, 2024, in Washington, D. C.

The Public Lands Foundation is honored to posthumously recognize Kit Muller with this Lifetime Service Award at the PLF’s annual meeting in Boise, Idaho, on October 7, 2025.

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Mary Jo Rugwell, President October 7, 2025