US Forest service to move national headquarters to Salt Lake City.

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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah is home to more than 8 million acres of U.S. Forest Service land, and it's now poised to be home to the agency's operations.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday that it will relocate its Forest Service headquarters to Salt Lake City as part of a "sweeping restructuring of the agency" that seeks to bring the agency's leaders closer to the lands it manages.

"Moving the Forest Service closer to the forests we manage is an essential action that will improve our core mission of managing our forests while saving taxpayer dollars and boosting employee recruitment," said Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, in a statement. "Establishing a Western headquarters in Salt Lake City and streamlining how the Forest Service is organized will position the chief and operation leaders closer to the landscapes we manage and the people who depend on them."

The department also announced that it will create a new "state-based organizational model," which features 15 state directors who will be set up across the country to oversee operations in a state or a smaller cluster of states, by meeting with states, tribes and other key figures within their zones

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