Latest Public Lands Attack: Gutting the US Forest Service

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The US Forest Service manages 193 million acres of public lands across 42 states and Puerto Rico. Now, after months of cutting environmental protections and gutting public lands management agencies, Trump is aiming to further weaken the Forest Service -- and further threaten our national forests.

The proposed reorganization has nothing to do with making the Forest Service more nimble and responsive -- it's about making it impossible for the agency to do its job. By starving them for funding, routinely cutting staff, and shuttering offices across the country, it becomes that much easier for the administration to cast the Forest Service as ineffective, and continue on a path towards privatizing public lands.

We need Congress to step in. Send a message to your Representative and Senators asking them to fight back against these latest attacks on our public lands.

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Since Day One, this administration has steadfastly worked towards privatizing public lands and eviscerating public lands management agencies like the National Park Service and the Forest Service. And time after time, the public has been clear that our public lands deserve better - they need real stewardship and management agencies that are responsive to the public.

The DOGE cuts, forced retirements, and layoffs put US Forest Service staff into a state of perpetual fear of losing their jobs and the agency as a whole into a state of chaos. Now, the administration's "restructure" of the Forest Service adds additional confusion while formalizing many of the recent cuts to USFS -- all without needed public input or Congressional oversight.

The American public wants and deserves a Forest Service that will steward our public lands with the best available science and will engage the public in management decisions - as they are required to do by law. The administration’s proposed restructure of the Forest Service appears to take us in exactly the wrong direction. It shutters 57 place-based research stations, closes regional offices across the country, and begins to place the boundaries of states at a higher value than the boundaries of ecosystems.

Congress needs to stand up to this action.

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Custer Gallatin National Forest. Photo by Sierra Club Staff.