{"id":52702,"date":"2025-03-04T12:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T17:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanhiking.org\/?p=52702"},"modified":"2025-03-10T12:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:22:46","slug":"american-hiking-joins-nearly-500-organizations-in-support-of-federal-land-management-staffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanhiking.org\/american-hiking-joins-nearly-500-organizations-in-support-of-federal-land-management-staffing\/","title":{"rendered":"American Hiking joins nearly 500 organizations in support of federal land management staffing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/americanhiking.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/495-Organization-Sign-on-Letter.pdf\">PDF Version of Letter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On February 28, American Hiking Society joined a letter signed on behalf of 495 organizations calling on Congress to immediately reverse the terminations of 5,700 federal land management employees and halt any further workforce reductions to our public land management agencies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These employees are an essential component to AHS&#8217; 50 years of partnership with federal land management agencies to complete critical trail maintenance work with volunteers. This work ensures access to the 59 million strong hiking community! Partnerships are essential to maintaining trails on federal public lands nationwide. These partnerships are not possible without federal land management staff on the ground both full-time and seasonal positions that can work with organizations, like American Hiking Society. Without these employees the critical work cannot be accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Letter Text<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>February 28, 2025<\/p>\n<br \/>\nUnited States Senators and Representatives,\n<br \/>\nOn behalf of our members, supporters, and volunteer stewards, we write with significant concerns regarding the recent mass firing of federal employees still within their probationary periods, particularly those individuals who had been employed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), USDA Forest Service (USFS) and the National Park Service (NPS). These firings are unprecedented (approximately 5,700 employees as of now) and made without regard to the agencies&#8217; ability to carry out their mandates as required by law or the impacts on the management of our public lands. This loss of staff will have devastating effects on the protection and management of these lands and cause economic hardship to the communities that surround them. We urge Congress to immediately reverse these terminations and halt any further workforce reductions to our public land management agencies.<br \/>\n\nOur nation&#8217;s public lands are treasures to be stewarded by our land management agencies according to the missions for which Congress created them and the mandates dictated to them by law. It is these agencies whose employees are responsible for protecting these national treasures. These employees are educators, engineers, recreation specialists, permit processors, maintenance staff, campground hosts, front-facing park and forest rangers, wildlife biologists, backcountry safety patrollers, wildland firefighters, trail<br \/>\nconstruction leaders, and all other kinds of professionals driven to serve their country with their expertise. With a steady decrease in staffing over the last decade, they are often overworked, underappreciated, and underpaid. Without them, however, the natural and cultural resources that belong to all Americans cannot be stewarded. They are vital to the $1.2 trillion outdoor recreation economy, which is an engine of economic development for American communities throughout our nation. These indiscriminate workforce reductions were made on the basis of abstract targets to reduce the federal workforce. The type or importance of the positions and reliance of Americans on their work were not considered. Critical positions such as maintenance, public health, human resources, and education positions have been terminated<br \/>\nthroughout the country.\n<br \/>\nNeither was the human factor of these citizens considered. Some who have trained for years to develop the expertise to serve their country, or were recently promoted in recognition of their service, were let go. Others who uprooted lives, moved across the country, and have exhausted their savings simply because they were called to serve the public were let go. Even high-level position holders, with long histories at one agency who simply transferred to another agency or earned a promotion, were also let go as they were<br \/>\ntechnically still on probation. These neighbors, colleagues, and community members pay taxes, buy groceries and are vital contributors to their local economies, where the loss of their jobs will cause real hardship.\n<br \/>\nWe urge Congress to immediately reverse these terminations and halt any further workforce reductions.\n<br \/>\nSincerely,<br \/>\n350.org<br \/>\n365 Degree Total Marketing<br \/>\nAla Kahakai Trail Association<br \/>\nAlamosa Riverkeeper<br \/>\nAlaska Clean Water Advocacy<br \/>\nAlaska Community Action on Toxics<br \/>\nAlaska Institute for Justice<br \/>\nAlaska Soles, Great Old Broads for<br \/>\nWilderness<br \/>\nAlaska Trails<br \/>\nAlaska Wilderness League<br \/>\nAlianza Coachella Valley<br \/>\nAll About Adventure<br \/>\nAllegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance<br \/>\nAlliance for a Better Utah<br \/>\nAlta Peak Chapter, California Native Plant<br \/>\nSociety<br \/>\nAmache Preservation Society<br \/>\nAmerican Baptist Churches, USA<br \/>\nAmerican Bird Conservancy<br \/>\nAmerican Discovery Trail Society<br \/>\nAmerican Hiking Society<br \/>\nAmerican Whitewater<br \/>\nAmigos De Los Rios<br \/>\nAnacostia Riverkeeper<br \/>\nAnimal Welfare Institute<br \/>\nAppalachian Mountain Club<br \/>\nAppalachian Voices<br \/>\nArchaeology Southwest<br \/>\nArizona Faith Network<br \/>\nArizona Trail Association<br \/>\nAsian Pacific Islander Forward Movement<br \/>\nAssociation of National Park Rangers<br \/>\nAtomic Heritage Foundation<br \/>\nAuburn-Opelika Tourism<br \/>\nBack Country Horsemen of New Mexico<br \/>\nBackcountry Horsemen of Oregon<br \/>\nSourdough Chapter<br \/>\nBacon Street Youth and Family Services<br \/>\nBark<br \/>\nBark for Mt Hood<br \/>\nBear Creek Consulting<br \/>\nBicycle Adventures, Inc.<br \/>\nBicycle Trails Council of the East Bay<br \/>\nBird Alliance of Oregon<br \/>\nBlack Hills Clean Water Alliance<br \/>\nBlack Warrior Riverkeeper<br \/>\nBolsa Chica Land Trust<br \/>\nBoston Harbor Now<br \/>\nBowling Green Area Convention &amp; Visitors<br \/>\nBureau<br \/>\nBozeman Birders<br \/>\nBraided Seeds<br \/>\nBuild Lebanon Trails<br \/>\nBuka Environmental<br \/>\nCactusToCloud Institute<br \/>\nCalifornia Environmental Voters<br \/>\nCalifornia Institute for Biodiversity<br \/>\nCalifornia Mountain Biking Coalition<br \/>\nCalifornia Native Plant Society<br \/>\nCalifornia Native Plant Society Mojave<br \/>\nDesert Chapter<br \/>\nCalifornia Native Seed Supply<br \/>\nCollaborative<br \/>\nCalifornians for Western Wilderness<br \/>\nCalWild<br \/>\nCane River National Heritage Area<br \/>\nCarriages of Acadia, Inc.<br \/>\nCascade Backcountry Alliance<br \/>\nCascade Forest Conservancy<br \/>\nCascade Volunteers<br \/>\nCenter for a Sustainable Coast<br \/>\nCenter for Community Action and<br \/>\nEnvironmental Justice<br \/>\nCenter for Large Landscape Conservation<br \/>\nCenter for Sustainable Communities<br \/>\nCentral Cascades Winter Recreation<br \/>\nCouncil<br \/>\nCentral Sierra Environmental Resource<br \/>\nCenter<br \/>\nCentral\/Eastern Oregon Chapter of the<br \/>\nGreat Old Broads for Wilderness<br \/>\nChattahoochee National Park<br \/>\nConservancy<br \/>\nChattooga Conservancy<br \/>\nChautauqua-Conewango Consortium, A<br \/>\nWaterkeeper Alliance Affiliate<br \/>\nCherokee Concerned Citizens<br \/>\nCherokee Forest Voices<br \/>\nChispa Arizona<br \/>\nChristians For The Mountains<br \/>\nCitizens for a Safe &amp; Clean Lake Superior<br \/>\nCity of Issaquah<br \/>\nClackamas River Basin Council<br \/>\nClarksburg Visitors Bureau<br \/>\nClimate and Wildfire Institute<br \/>\nClimate Law &amp; Strategy<br \/>\nCoalition for Sonoran Desert Protection<br \/>\nCoalition to Protect America&#8217;s National<br \/>\nParks<br \/>\nCoastal Carolina Riverwatch<br \/>\nCog Wild Bicycle Tours<br \/>\nCollier County Waterkeeper<br \/>\nColorado Mountain Bike Association<br \/>\nColorado Mountain Club<br \/>\nColorado Native Plant Society,<br \/>\nConservation Committee<br \/>\nColorado Wild Public Lands<br \/>\nColorado Wildlands Project<br \/>\nColt Park Foundation, Inc.<br \/>\nCommunity Land Shepherds<br \/>\nConcord Freedom<br \/>\nConcord Trails Committee<br \/>\nConnecting Nature<br \/>\nConservancy for Cuyahoga Valley<br \/>\nNational Park<br \/>\nConservation Colorado<br \/>\nConservation Lands Foundation<br \/>\nConservation Minnesota<br \/>\nConservation Northwest<br \/>\nConservation Voters New Mexico<br \/>\nConserve Southwest Utah<br \/>\nContinental Divide Trail Coalition<br \/>\nCook Inletkeeper<br \/>\nCoosa River Basin Initiative<br \/>\nCreation Justice Ministries<br \/>\nCross New Hampshire Adventure Trail<br \/>\nCycle Yamhill County<br \/>\nCyclotour Guide Books<br \/>\nDeer Tail Scientific<br \/>\nDefenders of Wildlife<br \/>\nDelaware River Greenway Partnership<br \/>\nDickinson County Trails Board<br \/>\nDolores River Boating Advocates<br \/>\nDuncan Development<br \/>\nEarth Ethics, Inc.<br \/>\nEarthjustice<br \/>\necoAmerica<br \/>\nEcoFlight<br \/>\nEdisto Chamber of Commerce<br \/>\nEdmonson County Tourist and<br \/>\nConvention Commission<br \/>\nEnchanted Circle Trails Association<br \/>\nEndangered Habitats League<br \/>\nEndangered Species Coalition<br \/>\nEnvironmental Law &amp; Policy Center<br \/>\nEnvironmental Protection Information<br \/>\nCenter<br \/>\nEnvironmental Services International LLC<br \/>\nEvergreen Escapes<br \/>\nEvergreen Mountain Bike Alliance<br \/>\nExplore Brookhaven<br \/>\nExplore Estill<br \/>\nFarm 51<br \/>\nFirefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and<br \/>\nEcology<br \/>\nFireGeneration Collaborative<br \/>\nFlagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy&#8217;s<br \/>\nEnvironmental Coalition<br \/>\nForest Bridges: The O&amp;C Forest Habitat<br \/>\nProject<br \/>\nForest Keeper<br \/>\nForest Stewards Guild<br \/>\nForest Unlimited<br \/>\nForeverGreen Trails<br \/>\nFour Way Community Foundation<br \/>\nFranklin D. Roosevelt Hyde Park<br \/>\nFoundation<br \/>\nFriends of the Eel River<br \/>\nFriends of Acadia<br \/>\nFriends of Blackwater, Inc.<br \/>\nFriends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara<br \/>\nFriends of Congaree Swamp<br \/>\nFriends of Dyke Marsh<br \/>\nFriends of Fairsted<br \/>\nFriends of Fish Lake<br \/>\nFriends of Fish Lake and HistoriCorps<br \/>\nFriends of Hawai&#8217;i Volcanoes National<br \/>\nPark<br \/>\nFriends of Ironwood Forest<br \/>\nFriends of Katahdin Woods and Waters<br \/>\nFriends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens<br \/>\nFriends of Minidoka<br \/>\nFriends of Minute Man National Park<br \/>\nFriends of Plumas Wilderness<br \/>\nFriends of Pu&#8217;uhonua o Honaunau<br \/>\nNational Historical Park<br \/>\nFriends of Rio Grande del Norte<br \/>\nFriends of Saguaro National Park<br \/>\nFriends of San Pablo Bay National Wildlife<br \/>\nRefuge<br \/>\nFriends of Save our Heritage<br \/>\nFriends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness<br \/>\nFriends of the 500th<br \/>\nFriends of the Boston Harbor Islands<br \/>\nFriends of the Clearwater<br \/>\nFriends of the Dunes<br \/>\nFriends of the Earth<br \/>\nFriends of the Inyo<br \/>\nFriends of the Kalmiopsis<br \/>\nFriends of the North Pikes Creek<br \/>\nWetlands<br \/>\nFriends of the Sonoran Desert<br \/>\nFriends of the Springfield Armory National<br \/>\nHistoric Site<br \/>\nFriends of the West Shore<br \/>\nFriends of Vicksburg National Military<br \/>\nPark and Campaign<br \/>\nFriends of Wisconsin State Parks<br \/>\nFriends of Women&#8217;s Rights National<br \/>\nHistorical Park<br \/>\nGallatin Wildlife Association<br \/>\nGila Chapter Back Country Horsemen of<br \/>\nAmerica<br \/>\nGlacier-Two Medicine Alliance<br \/>\nGlen Canyon Institute<br \/>\nGolden Bricks Events<br \/>\nGrand Canyon Trust<br \/>\nGrand Staircase Escalante Partners<br \/>\nGrant Monument Association<br \/>\nGreat Basin Resource Watch<br \/>\nGreat Old Broads for Wilderness<br \/>\nGreat Salt Lake Waterkeeper<br \/>\nGreater Gadsden Area Tourism<br \/>\nGreater Yellowstone Coalition<br \/>\nGreen America<br \/>\nGreenbrier River Watershed Assoc. Inc.<br \/>\nGroton Ayer Buzz<br \/>\nGround Squirrel Research<br \/>\nGround Work Trails<br \/>\nGunpowder Riverkeeper<br \/>\nHamilton Partnership for Paterson<br \/>\nHampshire County Convention &amp; Visitors<br \/>\nBureau<br \/>\nHeadwaters Trails Alliance<br \/>\nHeather Nold<br \/>\nHenderson Tourist Commission<br \/>\nHigh Country Conservation Advocates<br \/>\nHills For Everyone<br \/>\nHistoric Pullman Foundation<br \/>\nHistoricorp<br \/>\nHot Springs Advertising &amp; Promotion<br \/>\nCommission<br \/>\nHumboldt Waterkeeper<br \/>\nIdaho Conservation League<br \/>\nIdaho Trails Association<br \/>\nIdyllwild Forest Health Project<br \/>\nInland Ocean Coalition<br \/>\nIntentional Hiking<br \/>\nInternational Fund for Animal Welfare<br \/>\nIssaquah Alps Trails Club<br \/>\nIssaquah Ice Cream Trike<br \/>\nJackson County Tourism Development<br \/>\nAuthority<br \/>\nJapanese American Citizens League<br \/>\nKalmiopsis Audubon Society<br \/>\nKayak Academy<br \/>\nKentucky Heartwood<br \/>\nKentucky Tourism Services Inc<br \/>\nKettle Range Conservation Group<br \/>\nKing County Play Equity Coalition<br \/>\nKlamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center<br \/>\nKLM and Associates<br \/>\nLarge Carnivore Fund<br \/>\nLassen Forest Preservation Group<br \/>\nLatino Outdoors<br \/>\nLaura Beth Strickland<br \/>\nLeague of Conservation Voters<br \/>\nLewis County CVB?Stonewallcountry<br \/>\nLiberty Tourism &amp; 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Convention<br \/>\nCommission<br \/>\nPark County Environmental Council<br \/>\nPark Overlook Farm<br \/>\nPartnership for the National Trails System<br \/>\nPatagonia Area Resource Alliance<br \/>\nPeace in the Wild<br \/>\nPelecanus<br \/>\nPennsylvania Recreation and Park Society<br \/>\nPhysicians for Social Responsibility PA<br \/>\nPilchuck Audubon Society<br \/>\nPinchot Institute for Conservation<br \/>\nPowell County Tourism Commission<br \/>\nPrairie Rivers Network<br \/>\nPreserve Calavera<br \/>\nPrestonsburg Tourism<br \/>\nDr. Linda J. 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