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North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet.
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This is so outrageous that I find it hard to believe. The cost of the entire US Forest Service must be minuscule, especially if you compare it to cost of waging unnecessary, illegal, and unethical wars all over the planet.
I'm sure this isn't really about saving money. It's about destroying the US Forest Service. That's the direct goal.
In a few years: "These unkempt forests are a real eyesore, what if we sell the land to private entities"
They're going to try and steal as much of it as possible while Taco is in charge
It's about removing roadblock to "national parks are open for business"
Loving nature is woke.
Hell yeah! Nature rules
This is also the second time that he's tried this. The first time was during his previous term, and though he was forced to reopen everything by the courts, the fact that he sold some of the federal land to (I think) oil companies was never acted upon, despite it being illegal to sell public land to corporate interests.
It’s probably so they can destroy climate change research and distract people yet again from other atrocities. Oh and drill or whatever they want to do with the land.
Yeah this is more of a re-org than an elimination. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
Still seems like it might cause problems but it's not the catastrophic change some people are making it out to be. And the Forest Service isn't just a bunch of tree-hugging conservationists their mission is basically the sustainable exploitation of US forests. So for that reason they are very important to industry.
It's "just a reorg" where they shut down all the research labs (which can't be moved because they're located by the forests they study) and hand leadership to pro-logging lobbyists.
It’s actually $9B a year…which I wouldn’t call “minuscule” like PBS was.
0.1% of annual spending is minuscule.
The point is Trump will never do anything that isn't for deeply personal reasons. And he would never do anything solely to save money on the budget, he doesn't care about that at all. So either he does this out of pure spite, because it is a "liberal" thing, or more likely he does it because he has been bribed by whatever industries are eager to turn all that forest into shortsighted profit.
Fine. But calling 9 billion dollars, an amount of money most people can’t even fathom, “minuscule” is pretty stupid.
In the federal budget context, that is literally a few dollars. It is super disingenuous to compare it to the budget of a single person.
Wildland Fire Management and the Wildfire Adjustment
The largest share of FS appropriations goes to the WFM account. The WFM appropriation funds preparedness, or fire prevention, detection, equipment and training; wildfire suppression; and salaries and expenses.
Overall, in FY2025, 51% of the agency's discretionary appropriations, including supplemental appropriations, were provided for these two accounts (26% WFM, 25% wildfire adjustment).
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF13101
What could possibly go wrong?