State and federal co-management of national Forest?

[2rocky]

In the FEED safety realm, our State Feed inspection Service contracts to do the Federal inspection for FDA to insure compliance with Safety standards under the Food Safety Modernization Act. I mention this because it is a good example of an state agency who has a relationship on the Localish level doing what is a national mandate. I could see the value of the state forestry agency doing something similar in Western Montana.

On the West coast California Department of Forestry is one of the most active Wildfire agencies around , so they are regarded in a better light than a Federal force might be. Usually they are local (at least full time staff lives in the community) and they work with private lands in managing their timber resource as well as water and soil health.

 

[Justabirdwatcher]

Kind of an impossible question as every answer is probably unique, but do you know how much of the work falls on the State vs the Feds? Like I mentioned, my problem with this is as a taxpayer. In the more remote areas of the West I suspect this is a way for the State to pick up revenue while the Feds (me) continue to bear the cost and responsibility of management.

The ones I know of, it's mostly the feds $. But the state does jobs that the fed's can't do, mostly because of policy or staffing.

 

[CMF]

We've had state-managed wildlife management areas on the National Forest here in MS for a long time. Haven't seen anything change. They used to do food plots on them, but haven't seen that in a while.