Forest Service to Move HQ to Salt Lake City

Forest Service office in Albuquerque to stay open despite department's restructure

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The United States Forest Service is closing most regional offices as it restructures, but Albuquerque's office is one of the few that will remain open. The Forest Service office will move its headquarters from Washington to Salt Lake City. Over the next two years, the agency will consolidate and close offices, but [...]

Forest Service Shake-Up Comes As Risky Wildfire Season Looms

The Trump administration says moving the Forest Service headquarters to Utah and shutting down 31 research stations will streamline operations and bring leaders west, where the forests are.By Marianne LavelleIn announcing one of the largest reorganizations in the 120-year history of the U.S. Forest Service, the Trump administration declared that there would be “no interruption or change” to the agency’s firefighting force.

Trump administration moves Forest Service HQ to the West

by Rebecca Huntington, WyoFile Gov. Mark Gordon praised the Trump administration’s decision unveiled Tuesday to move the U.S. Forest Service headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Salt Lake City to place agency leaders closer to the federal public lands they oversee and neighboring communities.  “I am optimistic about the opportunities this new organizational approach will bring Wyoming and the cooperative management of our state’s natural resour…

Trump to move forests HQ, close sites

SALT LAKE CITY — President Donald Trump's administration will move the U.S. Forest Service headquarters out of the nation's capital to Salt Lake City as part of an organizational overhaul that involves shuttering research facilities in 31 states and concentrating…

Forest Service to move HQ to Salt Lake City

MISSOULA — An ongoing shake-up of the Forest Service will include moving its Washington headquarters to Salt Lake City and creating 15 statewide offices — including one in Helena — while Missoula appears to be retaining at least some of…

Trump administration to move U.S. Forest Service HQ and shutter research facilities in 31 states

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