1. United States
2. Utah
3. Letter

I need you to block all funding for the Forest Service headquarters relocation to Salt Lake City and the closure of the agency's ten regional offices. This restructuring will destroy the capacity of the Forest Service to manage 193 million acres of public land. Moving the headquarters to Utah—a state currently suing to seize 18.5 million acres of federal land—is not administrative efficiency. It's a land grab. When the BLM headquarters moved during the first Trump administration, 87% of staff were lost. Only three of 328 employees actually relocated. This Forest Service move will have the same result: career professionals with decades of expertise purged and replaced with political appointees embedded alongside state legislators and industry lobbyists. The closure of more than fifty research facilities will terminate irreplaceable long-term studies on watersheds, old-growth forests, and ecosystems that cannot be moved to Fort Collins. Once institutional knowledge is destroyed and independent science is eliminated, the argument for transferring these forests to state control becomes inevitable. These are our national forests. Congress must demand oversight hearings and refuse to appropriate a single dollar for this dismantling. I expect you to fight this.