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North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet.
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I wouldn't call this a meme. It is fucking horrible news though
Idk. Is this even real? Is this a real thing that is happening? I guess it's a meme insofar as it's a very ridiculous, far-fetched, outrageous thing for the leader of a country to do. And yet, I genuinely don't know whether to think that it's true...
He is moving the forest service HQ out of washington DC and shutting down research. Ive not heard that he's closing regional offices.
Ive always felt like people think of the National Forests as National Parks or preserves, but theyre not. National Forests are mixed use allowing for recreation and industry.
Moving the HQ to the west makes sense to me since that's where a bulk of the forestland is. And we know that stupid people dont like smart people and their ideas, so research was bound to get torpedoed by Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/forest-service-relocation-dc-salt-lake-city-eca93fa055ffce3528f5e8c71160a135
He is also not eliminating research, a lot of research projects are closing but this seems to be more of a re-org.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
i got a bridge for sale!
great deal!
I don't think it is real. It seems to be the oversimplified and overexaggerated story of what is really happening. The guardian says that the US Forest Service will move headquarters from Washington DC to Salt Lake City:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/us-forest-service-washington-dc-salt-lake-city
This seems to cause many of its research facilities to (temporarily?) close:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
Oh wow, seems like what he's doing is not as bad as this post makes it out to be, although I'm sure he's doing it with bad intentions anyways.
Thanks for the sources, kind stranger!