Tracking Federal Office Closures That Impact Public Lands

Which public land management agency offices are being closed, and who will be effected by those closures?

Yesterday, in support of the Trump administration’s effort to massively reduce the federal workforce, the General Services Administration published a list of over 400 federal offices it plans to sell off. This morning, that list was deleted. Here it is in its entirety, along with a breakout of office space at public lands and related agencies (like the National Park Services and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), parsed by the impacts those closures will have to the places we care about.

“GSA currently owns and maintains over 440 non-core assets comprising almost 80 million rentable square feet across the nation and representing over $8.3 billion in recapitalization needs,” the agency said in a statement. “Decades of funding deficiencies have resulted in many of these buildings becoming functionally obsolete and unsuitable for use by our federal workforce. We can no longer hope that funding will emerge to resolve these longstanding issues. GSA’s decisive action to dispose of non-core ass…