Interview: Trump is destroying the Forest Service.
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Interview: Trump is destroying the Forest Service.
The intent is to "hollow out this federal agency & hand it to the resource extraction industry."
Potentially, there will be a transfer of federal public lands to states.
~Jim Pattiz
Forest Firings: Trump Admin Aims to “Break the Forest Service,” Nearly 200 Million Acres at Stake
The Trump administration in late March announced an extensive reorganization of the Forest Service, the federal agency responsible for managing 193 million acres of public lands across 43 states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. As part of the changes, 57 of 77 research stations across the country will be shuttered, with the headquarters relocating from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City. While the overhaul is billed as an effort to improve efficiency, conservationist Jim Pattiz says it will
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