Forest Service under threat?

[Conrad101st]

Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the US Forest Service - WhoWhatWhy

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

whowhatwhy.org

 

[BrayAppa]

Hope the swelling public and corporate opposition stalls this enough to minimize damage to the forests. Hunting access will be reduced by this illegal privatization

 

[RockAndSage]

Moving agencies out of DC to the maximum degree possible, and closest to the realities they control, is one of the wisest things that can be done for the fate of our nation. The less revolving-doors those people have access to, the more focused they will be on the actual mission of the institutions they seek to serve. They will become more self-selecting for mission, rather than self-serving.

This says everything anyone needs to know about whether people in DC are dedicated to mission or dedicated to being part of the leftist DC swamp:


"Of 328 BLM positions ordered to relocate, 287 employees left the agency. Only 41 moved at all — scattered across various western offices. And only three — three human beings — actually relocated to the new “headquarters” in Grand Junction, CO. The agency lost 87 percent of its Washington-based workforce."

 

[BrayAppa]

Moving agencies out of DC to the maximum degree possible, and closest to the realities they control, is one of the wisest things that can be done for the fate of our nation. The less revolving-doors those people have access to, the more focused they will be on the actual mission of the institutions they seek to serve. They will become more self-selecting for mission, rather than self-serving.

This says everything anyone needs to know about whether people in DC are dedicated to mission or dedicated to being part of the leftist DC swamp:


"Of 328 BLM positions ordered to relocate, 287 employees left the agency. Only 41 moved at all — scattered across various western offices. And only three — three human beings — actually relocated to the new “headquarters” in Grand Junction, CO. The agency lost 87 percent of its Washington-based workforce."

Most people can’t get up and move on a whim, regardless of their profession. They have mortgages, families, community ties, etc. Forest service workers, BLM types aren’t rolling in dough, they're middle class folks at best, nobody goes into that work to get rich.

I’d agree with you if offices were being moved closer to the forests they were regulating. Instead loads of regional offices are being shuttered which puts the regulatory offices farther away from the places they are ostensibly regulating.