Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

If they actually dismantle it rather than just talk about it, we'll finally see what happens when you let states manage their own land instead of having federal bureaucrats decide everything from Washington.

"with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice" - yeah that's definitely not loaded language or anything, great job hatchmag"

The Forest Service has roughly 9,000 employees and manages 193 million acres, so "dismantling" is doing a lot of work here - what are they actually proposing, transferring it to states, privatization, or something else entirely?

wait so what actually happens to the national forests? are they just gonna sell them off or what, because that seems like a pretty big deal for hunting and camping

How is this not causing massive protests right now?? We're talking about destroying an agency that manages 193 MILLION acres of public land that belongs to all of us, and half the country seems asleep at the wheel!

This is what happens when you hand the keys to a party that sees public lands as nothing but real estate to be liquidated. We're going to be fighting lawsuits over this for a decade.

honestly the "subtlety of a wrecking ball" line is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, feels like they wanted you mad before you even knew what was actually happening