Forest Service Reorg - Progress or Politics

[dc4836]

Are personnel at the closing research station being reassigned or terminated? This admin sure if doing a great job of destroying jobs when economic recovery was supposed to be a theme. Good thing we’re spending millions bombing other counties so that our country can’t be bothered to care of its own citizens

No direct terminations, but terminations by proxy

 

[INMT]

Perfect timing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YFA.trHp.mA6rgr5hvoOs&smid=nytcore-ios-share

 

[Straight Arrow]

Perfect timing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YFA.trHp.mA6rgr5hvoOs&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Yep and priority message from White House yesterday was that DOD needs trillions more and everything else is just fluff which needs budget cuts. The states can pick up the tab for anything else they think they need.

 

[SAJ-99]

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You are giving Mike Lee too much importance in this. His views on public land are more widely held than we want to admit.

I just finished @Big Fin podcast talking with MT FWP R1 commissioner where there was heavy implication on "Federal Mismanagement of Federal Lands".

Transcript
“It's the federal lands management or lack thereof and the reasons for the lack of management. Those are probably the bigger hurdles to all Montana sportsmen than most folks give credit to and yeah, I mean, biology 101, healthy habitat.”

I cringed a little when I heard that given that is the main selling point of Mike Lee and those with his view. When Randy, who is unquestionably a leader in public land advocacy lets that out there, it shows how hard this is. My big concern is that point will stick because it is simple and can largely be agreed upon, but not many care about context. And not many people are going to delve into the Supremacy Clause and how certain laws let the legal fights drive decisions, which is where the changes should really occur. Destroying the power of the Federal government is the point to all of this. Mike Lee isn't the cause of any of it. We the voters are.