Forest Service HQ Move

[CorbLand]

Like i said to Jason above I wasn't asking the front desk person, it was in a meeting with a Forest Supervisor, who if that was what they needed from me could have said fill out a FOIA but they didn't.

The sad thing is that the front desk person is probably better at directing you to the place you need to go.

If you truly want to know, the only way to get the actual truth of what has or hasn’t happened is via a FOIA. Even asking the people directly leaves it up to interpretation and opinion.

I can’t speak for other entities but my director knows **** all about really anything when it comes to the money side of things. All he really knows is that projects are or aren’t happening. He doesn’t know what funding is being used or where it came from. He should know but he doesn’t and doesn’t care to learn it.

That is why people need to do a FOIA. It will force him to answer. Outside of that, he can dodge it.

FOIA also helps get the questions being asked to the right people to answer them. There is funding that we get, that I know what it can and can’t be used for and that’s it. I don’t know where the funding comes from or how it was obtained.

If it was other FS employees that were frustrated that tells me that it’s largely an administrative/director level problem. As someone who is in a middle management position, that’s not uncommon. Literally dealing with that currently.

Edit to add. None of this is directed directly at you. It’s more to help people understand both sides of the coin. The government needs to be better but so does the general public.