1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

I need you to block all funding for the Forest Service headquarters relocation and regional office closures. This isn't a reorganization. It's designed to irreparably destroy the scientific infrastructure we built over generations to safeguard our collective future. Our national forests embody an American ideal that transcends partisan politics: that some places belong to all of us, held in trust for those not yet born. Since Theodore Roosevelt established the Forest Service in 1905, we've built a system of research stations monitoring watersheds, tracking old-growth ecosystems, and studying climate impacts across 193 million acres. Consolidating fifty research facilities into Fort Collins will kill decades of experiments that cannot be moved. When these stations close, the data dies with them. This follows the BLM playbook. When headquarters moved to Grand Junction, 87% of staff were lost. Of 328 positions ordered to relocate, only 41 employees moved and just three actually relocated. That wasn't dysfunction. That was the goal. Moving Forest Service headquarters to Salt Lake City while Utah actively sues to seize 18.5 million acres of federal land serves industry, not the public trust. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz is a former logging executive. This restructuring transfers public assets to political cronies while destroying the scientific capacity that protects what belongs to all Americans. This will cause irreparable harm to Americans and our collective future. Demand congressional oversight and refuse to fund this dismantling of our inheritance.