March 16, 2026 - A recently released analysis of 2025 job losses in public land management agencies found that Nevada suffered a 21% loss in the number of federal employees charged with caring for the state’s public lands. Of the 463 jobs lost in Nevada, 60% were employees with five or more years of experience.

The analysis done by Prospect Partners, LLC and Hawk Eye Strategies, LLC looked at recently published data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to come up with the numbers.

“Cuts were pervasive," the report says, "with reductions in every state, every public land agency, and nearly every profession. Federal workforce reduction in land management agencies ranged from 11% to 26% in western states.”

The report concludes “the bottom line is that capacity loss in 2025 was nationwide, with net staffing reductions in every state and nearly every profession. The impact of workforce reductions is likely to undermine every service that federal land agencies deliver, from conservation and recreation to mineral and forest health management.

Cuts were especially strong among rural and front line employees that the public relies on to deliver services in the field, undermining previous claims to preserve “core mission” functions."

Nevada's wild places, those with conservation overlays and those that remain unprotected,
will feel the impacts of fewer stewards at our land management agencies