Contact: Juli Slivka, Senior Director of Policy and Programs at Wilderness Workshop
Date: April 2, 2026
The Trump Administration’s plan to shutter the Forest Service’s national headquarters, regional offices, and research and development facilities is a thinly veiled ploy to decimate our public lands by dismantling the agency that manages our national forests. “Relocating” the Forest Service headquarters to Utah will uproot, demoralize, and ultimately eliminate staff and expertise, as we saw when the first Trump administration employed the same ruthless strategy against the Bureau of Land Management. This sweeping and baseless reorganization will do real damage to our national forests, at a time when our public lands are already reeling from drastic funding and staffing cuts. Coloradans love our public lands, and we expect their responsible stewardship.
