#forestservice — Public Fediverse posts

US Forest Service Moves to Strip Protections from 44M Acres

Agriculture Secretary Rollins proposes rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule, opening 44 million acres of national forest to logging and road construction.

https://pulseofnations.lol/us-forest-service-moves/

#Environment #ForestService #Forestry #Logging #RoadlessRule #Trump #Wildfire

Roadless Rule Area Interactive Map

https://www.nateshivar.com/36535/roadless-rule-area-interactive-map/

First Came the DOGE Cuts, Then Came the Wildfires

https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/doge-cuts-forest-service-wildfires/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171748

#HackerNews #DogeCuts #Wildfires #Conservation #OutdoorLife #ForestService

Ranch Fire: California’s Ranch Fire burned 459,123 acres in 53 days; eight years later, crews planted 71,000 seedlings across the scar in eight days https://www.allforgardening.com/1914146/ranch-fire-californias-ranch-fire-burned-459123-acres-in-53-days-eight-years-later-crews-planted-71000-seedlings-across-the-scar-in-eight-days/ #california #darner #ForestService #garden #gardening #GardeningIreland #ProtectionhindaDarner #RanchFire

US #ForestService Biologists Held #Hostage At Gunpoint By #TrailerTrash Father Son Team With Assault Rifles Near #MtShasta. The elder suspect has an extensive criminal history including mandated psychological treatments and past #HateCrime charges.

Authorities Say Situation Was Resolved Peacefully, And Federal #Kidnapping Charges Likely Due After 15-hour standoff at trailer near Gumboot Lake, a recreational area within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.

https://kymkemp.com/2026/07/18/gumboot-lake-kidnapping-suspect-has-documented-mental-health-concerns-prior-hate-crime-case-in-washington-state/

Tense Stand-off at Oregon Forest Service Building: What We Know

Full story 👇

Learn more: https://www.earthinsider.in/2026/07/forest-service-hostage-situation.html

#EarthInsider #EarthInsiderNews #EINews #US #America #USNews #USPolitics #ForestService #HostageStandoff #Oregon #BreakingNews #Trending #MustRead #TopStory

The US Forest Service wants to cut citizen comments on public lands proposals. We will have little or no say in policy concerning lands collectively owned by all Americans.
#forestservice
#publiclands
https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/forest-service-to-remove-your-voice

Three Firefighters Die as Wildfires Ravage Utah and Colorado

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/us/wildfires-utah-colorado-firefighters-deaths.html

A cattle industry lawsuit challenging the removal of unauthorized cattle from the Gila Wilderness was dismissed Wednesday by a federal appeals court. Both sides in the dispute found some vindication in the outcome. 

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/federal-court-dismisses-lawsuit-over-aerial-killing-of-cattle/3057008

#newmexico #gilawilderness #gilaforest #forestservice #ranching #livestockfarming #cattle

Forest scene, Deschutes National Forest, south of Bend, Oregon. Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs. Learn more at https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/deschutes and https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/55382 and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112713002119 and #pine #forest #publiclands #photography #rxburn #humancausedfire #prescribedfire #usfs #forestservice #travel #oregon #wildfire #history #tree #ponderosapine #mixedconifer #research #landscape #landscapephotography

US Forest Service Overhaul Sparks Fierce Debate: "Dismantling" or "Streamlining"?

US Forest Service is closing 57 research sites and moving HQ to Utah. See how this affects forest management and research.

#ForestService, #ResearchCuts, #UtahMove, #PublicLands, #Conservation

https://newsletter.tf/us-forest-service-research-sites-closing-utah/

The US Forest Service is closing 57 out of 77 research facilities nationwide. This move aims to streamline operations and relocate headquarters to Salt Lake City, Utah.

#ForestService, #ResearchCuts, #UtahMove, #PublicLands, #Conservation
https://newsletter.tf/us-forest-service-research-sites-closing-utah/

#ForestService #USFS #USForestService #Wildfire #Wildfires

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wobd7kca6ine2hjnyoaxsbai/post/3ml2eamenix2c

Tell Congress to hold hearings on how the US Department of Agriculture Secretary can implement a reorganization of the US Forest Service in direct contravention of legislation that both houses of Congress passed and the President signed into law; and how the General Counsel is allowed to declare a duly enacted law unconstitutional by internal memo and face no consequences. 🙃

Call script: https://indivisiblesf.org/call-scripts/stop-the-destruction-of-the-us-forest-service

#USDA #ForestService #CallYourReps #CallCongress

“‘Illegal’ forest service overhaul risks causing ‘chaos’ across US public lands, union claims” #USPol #ForestService https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/10/us-forest-service-restructure-union

In California, six Forest Service research stations will be closed. Dozens of facilities here and around the country will be eliminated, as research will be consolidated in a handful of locations.
Besides ending critical regional projects this will result in the loss of highly qualified research personnel.
#california
#forestservice
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/forest-service-california-stations-22192356.php

https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263

RED ALERT: TRUMP ENDS FOREST SERVICE

Late Tuesday afternoon, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. An execution.

They’re shuttering every one of the ten regional offices. They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone.

And they’re replacing all of it with fifteen lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the #ForestService log more, protect less, and get out of the way.

One hundred and ninety-three MILLION acres of your national forests. An area larger than Texas. The largest public land agency in the country. Just handed on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.

And they did it with a press release.

(I needed reader mode to see the page, dunno why)
#forestry #forests

#POTUS fuckwit trying to dissolve the #ForestService will be no more successful than his attempts to dissolve other entities

#USPolitics #AsIfCongressDidNotExist

#ClimateChange #ForestService #USFS #PublicLands

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gb76zheiindpp3q5523iv4pz/post/3minaeo6yyc2i

Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html

Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us

Dear Senator / Representative -

I want you to take legislative action to undo the recently announced change to the Forest Service.

I am appalled by gutting of the US Forest Service. This Republican Administration has announced that it is shuttering all 10 regional offices, and with them,the career professionals who spent entire lifetimes earning the expertise and the authority to push back on ideas that would harm long-term forest health.

They are closing the rural science research facilities in 31 states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable science on the forests that help generate the rain that falls on the US. And they’re replacing all of it with 15 political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more and protect less.

The technical experts they are losing are the people who know exactly what logging will ruin what watershed.

I am asking you to stand with every member of Congress and uphold the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt with legislation that keeps science and the public at the forefront of decision-making about public lands. Protect National Forest land.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #NationalForest #ForestService

#Politics #PublicLands #RepublicanTraitors #ForestService #Climate #Environment
https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-administration-orders