OMB Director Russel Vought is closing all the USFS’ nine regional offices, closing 55 research offices that focus on fire and watersheds, and they plan to move the USFS headquarters from Washington DC to Salt Lake City on short notice.
Category: BLM
Trump Appointees may Interfere in Caldera Trespass Cattle Problem
Trespass livestock grazing on the Valles Caldera National Preserve is part of a larger problem of overgrazing on public lands and powerful ranchers dominating public land politics.
Protect what is wild before we lose these lands for good
This is a guest column which is well worth reading. By SOREN JESPERSEN Public lands are the backbone of the Western Slope. They supply our drinking water, sustain our wildlife …
National Park Service in Crisis
The federal workforce costs taxpayers $350 billion per year. That’s about 5% of the $6.5 trillion budget. The US Department of Interior employs about 63,000 people nationwide. The bulk of the federal budget goes to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Department of Defense.
Time to Shut Down the Public Lands Livestock Industry
(photo of trespass cattle in the Valles Caldera National Preserve. Photo by Tom Ribe) We aren’t going to solve the climate crisis by doing a few easy things on the …
