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The Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the US Forest Service in its 121-year history. They’re moving the headquarters to Salt Lake City, Utah - the state currently suing the federal government to seize 18.5 million acres of public land. They’re closing all ten regional offices that have managed your national forests for over a century. They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across 31 states, ending decades of irreplaceable long-term ecological studies on wildfire, watersheds, and old-growth forests. They’re replacing career scientists and foresters with fifteen political appointees called “state directors” embedded alongside governors and industry lobbyists. The new Forest Service Chief is a former logging executive who invoked Theodore Roosevelt in the press release while dismantling Roosevelt’s life’s work. We know what happens next, when they moved the BLM to Grand Junction, 87% of staff left and only three people actually relocated. That wasn’t a reorganization. It was a mass firing disguised as a moving truck. 193 million acres of your national forests, an area larger than Texas, just handed to the people who want to strip-mine them.

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