cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/42469014
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution.
They’re ripping the headquarters out of Washington and shipping it to Salt Lake City, Utah — the beating heart of the anti-public-lands movement in America. They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that have governed this agency since Gifford Pinchot built the system over a century ago — and with them, the career professionals who spent entire lifetimes earning the expertise and the authority to push back when politicians came calling with bad ideas and worse motives. They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.
What’s the move on this one? Fires start getting even worse and trump sweeps in with the military to “save” everyone from the disaster he helped escalate?
Just like canceling the Iran nuclear treaty and then starting a war to stop Iran from making nukes (among all the other excuses).
I’m pretty sure they just want to dismantle all the environmental protection because it interferes with billionaires’ god given rights to spill toxic waste into rivers, burn old forests to build suburbs, and mine shit using slave labour.
You have only yourselves to blame America. You willingly elected, twice, a pedophile, rapist, conman and thief with the most extreme case of narcissistic personality disorder, all documented on film and TV for decades.
If November goes to shit it’s civil war or the end of American democracy and a complete fascist takeover.
I don’t think there are any trumpers on here… who are you even ranting to lol
There are plenty who refused to vote for Harris because … reasons.
“Reasons”
Everyone who dismisses why Harris was an unviable candidate as “reasons” is just as bad as Trump voters.
Trump voting is not the fault of people who refused to vote for “most lethal military” genocide supporting Harris, it’s the fault of everyone who voted Trump first and everyone who voted for a genocidal unviable candidate second.
Failing to win against Trump is a huge failure.
“What have forests ever done for us!”
This cut to a drastically under-funded and already tiny workforce will make no difference to the short, medium or long term US finances. It simply harms.
I can only assume their goal is to cut down trees, drill where they couldn’t before, and otherwise take from things that were protected. So it will be lucrative for a the select few.
I feel a little silly for not having thought of that myself. Thanks for highlighting.
Slit his throat.
Nah. Send him on a hike in bear country.
Hahahahahahahahaha.
I have two distant family members that are pro-Trump that work for the forest service.
Love it.
Leopard, meet face
Well deserved fell for it award!
The President’s job is to dismantle the USA from within. Putin must be very happy with his employee.
Are the Epstein files hidden in the forest?
Wildland Fire Management and the Wildfire Adjustment
The largest share of FS appropriations goes to the WFM account. The WFM appropriation funds preparedness, or fire prevention, detection, equipment and training; wildfire suppression; and salaries and expenses.
Overall, in FY2025, 51% of the agency’s discretionary appropriations, including supplemental appropriations, were provided for these two accounts (26% WFM, 25% wildfire adjustment).
