Forest Service Reorg - Progress or Politics

[PapaSmurf]

I don’t pretend to have the answers. Maybe you do.

I would try to move more decision making power back down to the forest and district levels. I would uncombine all the districts and forests that have been combined over the past few decades. I would push for better pay in order to attract a more motivated workforce. I would push to repeal and rewrite the endangered species act in a way where it can be used in a constructive manner, rather than just being used as a weapon by environmental groups that make a living suing the government. I would search for ways for the agency to generate funds so it would be less of a tax burden on the public.

 

[SAJ-99]

I would try to move more decision making power back down to the forest and district levels. I would uncombine all the districts and forests that have been combined over the past few decades. I would push for better pay in order to attract a more motivated workforce. I would push to repeal and rewrite the endangered species act in a way where it can be used in a constructive manner, rather than just being used as a weapon by environmental groups that make a living suing the government. I would search for ways for the agency to generate funds so it would be less of a tax burden on the public.

The eventual move is to privatize all these functions across all these federal agencies. 2027 Budget request below. The fire management dominates the funding obligation. Probably easiest to transfer that $5b to private contractors in the name of “efficiency”. Capitalism baby!