1. United States
2. Nev.
3. Letter

Block all funding for the Forest Service relocation and restructuring until the full implications have been studied, debated, and voted on by the people's elected representatives. This sweeping reorganization is being rammed through without proper congressional oversight or public input. The administration plans to move Forest Service headquarters from Washington to Salt Lake City, shut down all ten regional offices that have operated since Gifford Pinchot established them over a century ago, and destroy more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states. The agency manages 193 million acres of national forests—an area larger than Texas. Changes of this magnitude demand full congressional review. We already know what happens when you force mass relocations. When BLM headquarters moved to Grand Junction during Trump's first term, 87% of staff were lost. Of 328 positions ordered to relocate, only three employees actually moved to the new headquarters. That wasn't dysfunction—it was the goal. Career professionals with decades of expertise were purged and replaced with political appointees. The choice of Salt Lake City is no accident. Utah is actively suing to seize 18.5 million acres of public land. Governor Spencer Cox just signed an agreement giving Utah control over eight million acres of national forest. These forests belong to all Americans, not to one state's extractive industries. Stop this funding now.