1. United States
2. N.J.
3. Letter

I am writing as your constituent to demand action against the Trump administration's systematic sellout of America's public lands and natural resources. First: the administration wants to bulldoze 112 miles of steel wall through Big Bend National Park, one of the most ecologically irreplaceable landscapes in North America. The Big Bend sector accounts for roughly 1% of all southern border crossings, the fewest of any sector, down 74% already. DHS Secretary Noem waived 28 federal laws to fast-track it. No public comment. No transparency. Just contractors swarming a remote Texas wilderness that 1,500-foot canyon walls already make nearly impassable. Even local Republican sheriffs are calling it a disaster. Second: this week, the administration announced it is gutting the U.S. Forest Service, shuttering all nine regional offices, slashing its budget by 34%, relocating headquarters to Salt Lake City, and closing research facilities in more than 30 states. The agency has already lost nearly 6,000 employees. They've rescinded the Roadless Rule. They've declared fake emergencies to strip environmental review from 60% of our national forests. Over 80% of public comments opposed this plan. Trump and his Republican enablers didn’t care. This is a coordinated effort to hollow out the agencies that stand between our public lands and the logging, drilling, and mining interests that have been circling them for decades. 193 million acres of national forest. 800,000 acres of Big Bend. These belong to every American, not to construction contractors, to fossil fuel companies, and not to politicians who have spent years in court trying to seize federal land. I demand you use every lever available — legislation, appropriations, oversight hearings — to stop this pillaging of our natural inheritance. Future generations will ask what you did when it mattered. Make sure you have an answer.