1. United States
2. Nev.
3. Letter

Block all funding for the Forest Service reorganization that would relocate headquarters to Salt Lake City, shut down ten regional offices, and dismantle more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states. This is not reform. It's a deliberate strategy to purge career professionals and hand control of 193 million acres of public land to political appointees and industry lobbyists. The Bureau of Land Management relocation during Trump's first term resulted in 87% staff loss. Of 328 positions ordered to move, only 41 employees relocated at all and just three made it to the new headquarters. The same will happen here, and that's the point. Replacing the regional structure with fifteen political appointees embedded in state capitals destroys the professional management system Gifford Pinchot built to protect these forests from industrial plunder. Consolidating research facilities into Utah will kill decades of place-based ecological studies. Watershed monitoring, old-growth research, and long-term ecosystem experiments cannot be moved. When these facilities close, the data ends and institutional knowledge disappears forever. Salt Lake City was chosen because Utah is actively suing to seize 18.5 million acres of federal land. Governor Spencer Cox already signed an agreement giving Utah control over eight million acres of national forest. This reorganization is step five in a six-step plan that ends with land transfer. Stop it now.