{"id":71343,"date":"2026-04-10T05:55:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/illegal-forest-service-overhaul-risks-causing-chaos-across-us-public-lands-union-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:55:29","slug":"illegal-forest-service-overhaul-risks-causing-chaos-across-us-public-lands-union-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/illegal-forest-service-overhaul-risks-causing-chaos-across-us-public-lands-union-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Illegal\u2019 forest service overhaul risks causing \u2018chaos\u2019 across US public lands, union claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The restructuring will close all regional offices, which manages 193m acres of land, roughly the size of Texas<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US public lands will \u201cpay the price\u201d of a drive by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s officials to restructure the agency that oversees them, union leaders have warned, accusing the administration of forcing workers to decide whether to relocate or resign.<\/p>\n<p>All regional offices of the US Forest Service, which manages 78m hectares (193m acres) of land \u2013 roughly the size of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/texas\">Texas<\/a> \u2013 are set to close as part of an overhaul launched by the Trump administration. The service has already shed hundreds of staff members since Trump returned to power last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/10\/us-forest-service-restructure-union\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The restructuring will close all regional offices, which manages 193m acres of land, roughly the size of Texas Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox US public lands will \u201cpay the price\u201d of a drive by Donald Trump\u2019s officials to restructure the agency that oversees them, union &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Illegal\u2019 forest service overhaul risks causing \u2018chaos\u2019 across US public lands, union claims\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/illegal-forest-service-overhaul-risks-causing-chaos-across-us-public-lands-union-claims\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Illegal\u2019 forest service overhaul risks causing \u2018chaos\u2019 across US public lands, union claims\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}