Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
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 executio...
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"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!
Maybe if the mainstream media wasn't so busy attacking Trump they'd actually report on what he's really doing instead of making stuff up!
The headline does overstate things - the administration is proposing restructuring, not literal dismantling, so the criticism about oversimplification cuts both ways here.
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
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.
States will just sell it all to logging companies and oil corporations that funded their campaigns.