Here is what tRump is doing to public lands

[just-jim]

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GOOD analysis!

https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/ ... s-starving

“The U.S. Forest Service Is Starving to Death in Real Time
America is running 193 million acres on a starvation budget, and the consequences are already here

The United States is trying to manage 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands with an agency that is functionally broke.

Not symbolically broke. Not rhetorically broke. Actually, measurably, operationally broke.

The system that maintains more than 370,000 miles of roads, 164,000 miles of trails, thousands of bridges, drinking water systems, dams, campgrounds, and entire watersheds is carrying a $10.8 billion maintenance backlog and losing staff (intentionally) faster than it can replace them.

This is not a future risk. It is a present failure and one that should alarm every American.

The agency responsible for one fifth of all federally managed land is being asked to absorb larger wildfires, higher visitation, aging infrastructure, and rising housing costs for workers while Congress congratulates itself for marginal fixes that do not touch the core problem.

The name of that agency is the U.S. Forest Service. And it’s ruin is will affect all of us for generations to come.
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