Tell Congress: Protect the Stewards of Our Public Lands and National Parks

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Elon Musk’s DOGE team has fired thousands of rangers, educators, scientists, and caretakers of the National Park Service, Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Land Management. These mass firings aren't just cruel to thousands of people now left without a job and an income--they will also make our parks and public lands less accessible, less safe, and more prone to permanent damage. Unless they are reversed, these mass firings will hurt protected lands, wildlife, and visitors.

These stewards, like so many other critical federal employees, are under an unprecedented attack from an unelected billionaire and the Trump administration that has enabled him.

Tell your member of Congress to urge the Trump administration to support our national parks, monuments, forests, and other public lands, and the hardworking civil servants dedicated to protecting them.

Please consider adding a personal message, especially if you are planning to visit a National Park or other public lands this year or have visited recently, to share how this loss of staff impacts you.

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I value America’s unique and precious public lands for what they mean to me, and what they protect. The staff who steward those lands make America’s parks, monuments, and refuges an extraordinary and invaluable resource.

I ask that you call on Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to stop slashing their workforce and reverse harmful staffing policies that impact land management and environmental protection.

These staff are the heartbeat of public lands, national parks, national monuments, national forests, wildlife refuges, and the health of our air, water, and communities. They are essential to the special places that millions of Americans visit every year. Those visitors drive local economies and support hundreds of thousands of jobs. From guiding hikes to backcountry rescues, trail maintenance to cleaning toilets, protecting endangered species, or helping green nature-deprived communities, staff are already being asked to do more with less. Any further cuts to staffing could forever change our national parks, public lands, and communities. The recent moves by the administration are nothing short of devastating.

In addition to leaving thousands of people without a paycheck, these layoffs will also hinder the implementation of key programs, impact visitor safety, stifle effective public land management, and result in the loss of critical institutional knowledge throughout our government.

Our communities and our economies rely on protected public lands and environmental protections. As your constituent, I want you to do everything in your power to protect the National Park Service, Forest Service and other land management, from these egregious staffing cuts.

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