Our employees, customers and communities depend on public lands. Moving the United States Forest Service’s headquarters to Utah will gut the agency and effectively remove anyone who doesn’t move to an office 2,000 miles away from its current location. By shutting down USFS research stations, culling staff, and moving the headquarters away from where decisions about federal lands are made, it will be surprising if USFS can effectively manage anything at all.
Looking at the current move to overturn the management plan of Grand Staircase-Escalante and all the other ways public lands are being threatened in Utah, there’s no reason to believe this will benefit anything other than the extractive industries. We will continue working with our Tribal and nonprofit partners to protect public lands and advocate for more funding for USFS and the Bureau of Land Management.
About Patagonia
We’re in business to save our home planet. Founded by Yvon Chouinard in 1973, Patagonia is an outdoor apparel company based in Ventura, California. As a certified B Corporation and a founding member of 1% for the Planet, the company is recognized internationally for its product quality and environmental activism, as well as its contributions of more than $240 million to environmental organizations. Its unique ownership structure reflects that Earth is its only shareholder: Profits not reinvested back into the business are paid as dividends to protect the planet.