1. United States
2. Ariz.
3. Letter

Block all funding for the Forest Service headquarters relocation to Salt Lake City and the closure of regional offices and research facilities. This restructuring will destroy the agency that manages 193 million acres of public land. When the Bureau of Land Management headquarters moved during Trump's first term, 287 of 328 employees left the agency. Only three actually relocated. The same mass attrition will happen here, gutting the Forest Service of career professionals and scientists. Consolidating over fifty research facilities into a single location means ending decades-long ecological studies that cannot be moved or restarted. These watershed and old-growth monitoring programs provide the scientific basis for protecting forests from harmful logging and development. Not to mention climate change and wildfires. The choice of Utah is no accident. Utah is currently suing to seize 18.5 million acres of federal land, and Governor Spencer Cox just signed a deal giving Utah control over eight million acres of national forest. Moving the headquarters there and replacing regional offices with fifteen political appointees embedded in state capitals hands our forests to the same politicians and industries that have spent careers trying to dismantle public land protections. This is executive destruction of a 121-year-old agency without a congressional vote. Stop it by blocking the funding.