1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

Stop the reorganization of the U.S. Forest Service and ensure it has full staffing and funding. The reorganization plan announced March 31, 2026 is gutting an agency that took 120 years to build — closing 57 of 77 research facilities, displacing over 1,900 employees, and leaving the few remaining staff unable to do their jobs. Right now on most forests, one person is doing the work of several scientific professionals across multiple forests, spending more time driving hundreds of miles between sites than actually managing the land. That's not efficiency by any measure. The Government Accountability Project's June 4 whistleblower disclosure reveals the agency may also be diverting disaster relief funds just to make payroll. When the Trump administration relocated the Bureau of Land Management in 2019, 135 of 176 headquarters employees quit or retired rather than move. The same brain drain is coming for the Forest Service. The research being cut or disrupted doesn't just serve local forests; it informs land management decisions nationwide. Don't let this agency be dismantled piece by piece. Block this reorganization and fight to restore the USFS to the staffing levels and funding it needs to protect our forests.