General Discussion

Congress has already funded them through 2026. This looks like another thing trump is screwing around with that he has no right to do so.

Reading the whole article made my blood boil. This is a huge win for the logging industry, and people that want to use that land for their own profit.

"Theodore Roosevelt created the national forests to protect them from exactly the kind of industrial plunder this administration is enabling. Gifford Pinchot built the Forest Service from scratch, brick by brick, to ensure that America’s forests would be managed by trained professionals in the public interest — not by political appointees serving the timber industry from a satellite office in the state that wants to own those forests."

One of the biggest losses is the research scientists who will leave.

"This is the most respected forestry research program on the planet. It’s the reason we understand wildfire behavior, forest disease, watershed health, carbon storage, old-growth ecology, and climate adaptation. It’s the scientific backbone that every responsible land management decision depends on. It’s the envy of land managers across the world."