🚨 Take Action to Protect Our Trails 🚨
The proposed budget for FY26 threatens the very trails we ride, hike, and love. It includes:
🔻 60% cut to U.S. Forest Service trail maintenance
🔻 Total elimination of $6M for Legacy Roads and Trails
🔻 Elimination of funding for BLM’s National Scenic and Historic Trails
🔻 Over $1 BILLION in cuts to the National Park Service — including $900M that directly supports trails
🔻 A rollback of permanent funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF)
These cuts will shut down access, cripple trail maintenance, and undermine local economies that depend on outdoor recreation.
💥 We need YOU to speak up — right now. 💥
Congress is drafting the budget, and they need to hear loud and clear: Don’t cut trail funding.
👉 Tell your Members of Congress to reject these devastating cuts and fully fund the trails we all rely on.
📝 We’ve made it easy — use the SAMPLE EMAIL below and this CONTACT LIST to send your message today.
Protect Trail Funding — Take Action Now
Congress is considering devastating cuts to trail funding. Your voice can make a difference. Use the sample email below to tell your Members of Congress to fully fund America’s trails and public lands:
Sample Email to Congress
Targets: All Members
I am reaching out today with grave concerns for the proposed drastic cuts or elimination of funding for our nation’s trails and the National Trails System in the President’s proposed budget. If enacted these cuts would have far reaching impacts including: decimating severely curtailing the public’s ability to access these trails, cripple the non-profit partners that co-manage these trails, negatively impact the economic development of the cities and towns that rely on these trails for their livelihoods, and put the continued preservation of these trails at risk for future generations.
Protect Trail Funding
I am asking you to reach out to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House/Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee to voice these concerns. If you’re a member of the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee I am asking you to ensure our nation's trails, including the National Trails System, are fully funded with the necessary direction by congress.
The President’s proposed FY26 budget recently sent to congress proposes drastic cuts to trails. The Forest Service will face trail funding cuts of at least 48%, funding for the BLM National Scenic and Historic Trails line item has been eliminated, and the overall National Park Service budget has been cut by over a billion dollars, including $900 million for park service operations which funds trails.
[Add Specifics About Impacts to Your Individual Trail If This Funding Occurs]
It is now more important than ever for Congress to ensure its role in appropriating funding and provide clear and direct guidance on how this funding should be used. Report language and bill text is critical to ensure that the trail line items below are funded at an appropriate level and congressional direction is followed. The recommendations in the attached letters are supported by over 250 organizations and nearly 100 Members of Congress.
Reject LWCF Funding Cuts
Additionally, the President’s budget proposes to dismantle the overwhelmingly bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act and renege on its promise to the American people. The budget attempts to eviscerate the law by proposing to divert funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund -- America’s best conservation and recreation program -- further threatening our National Parks, forests, and wildlife areas and jeopardizing the recreation access to them that America’s sportsmen, families, and communities need. This proposal must be rejected. The trails community has benefited from LWCF, since its creation, to complete our nation’s trails system from coast to coast. Congress must and should continue to address the deferred maintenance backlog, but the way to do that is by extending the National Parks and Public Lands Legacy Restoration Fund and not by looting the LWCF.
The trails community and all trail and outdoor users nationwide are looking to your leadership to ensure that these places remain open and accessible to the American people.
Thank you,
💡 Tip: Copy the text above, and email your Member of Congress today!
Your voice can help protect the future of public trails — from your local loops to the National Scenic Trails that connect us coast to coast.
Let’s make noise. Let’s stand together.
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