The Trump administration has undertaken a sweeping reorganization of the US Forest Service.
Critics referred to this as the most disastrous attack on the 121-year-old agency in its history.
In a major dismantling, the headquarters are moving to Utah and all ten regional offices have been closed.
The restructuring was announced on Tuesday, April 7 via a press release announcing that the agency’s headquarters are moving from Washington, DC, to Salt Lake City.
Ten regional centers will be shut down to make way for fifteen political appointees referred to as “state directors.”
In addition, more than fifty science centers located in thirty-one different states will also be abolished. It is important to note that, according to scientists, any attempt to move decades worth of long-term ecological research will result in its demise.
It is believed that there is a systematic effort to tear down. Already, the current government has reduced by over 25% the number of employees in the land management offices. A reduction of the budget for the Forest Service by one third has been proposed.
