Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

https://www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency/reorganization

Forest Ecosystem and Watershed studies in South Carolina. You can't study that from the new location. Nor the invasive species and forest health in Michigan and Minnesota. No more Spotted Owl and Old-Growth Habitat Monitoring.

This is irreplaceable regional ecological knowledge, university partnerships, and long-term datasets that took decades to build.

Tom Schultz is the first Forest Service Chief overseeing this; first Chief ever hired from outside the agency's career ranks. He came from the private timber industry (Idaho Forest Group).

Instead of timber trade partnerships with Canada, we are preparing to gut our national forests. Call your reps and let them know what you think. Not sure what else we can do.

Sad thing is that voters will not understand when someone else (probably a sane Dem) is cleaning up his mess.