The U.S. Forest Service, which manages 16 million acres of public land in Oregon, announced a major reorganization on March 31 that includes closing regional offices in Portland and opening a new headquarters in Salem.
The shakeup of the federal agency has been in the works for the past year since President Donald Trump took office and is now moving forward with big changes across the West.
The Forest Service manages Oregon’s largest swath of public land by far across 11 national forests with hundreds of sites for recreation, habitat for wildlife and forests for timber production…