#nationalforest — Public Fediverse posts

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

#GiftArticle

The girl danced for hours in knee-deep water as slanting rain pelted her slight frame weighed down by a sodden buckskin dress. Each step…closer to the end of a ritual that…signified a beginning.

Several days earlier, Lozen Brown-Lopez arrived at the top of #OakFlat. She was 11 years old, from the San Carlos #Apache Tribe & about to endure a grueling 4-day ceremony…practiced by Apaches for centuries.

#ChíchilBiłDagoteel #SacredLands #NationalForest #mining
https://wapo.st/4aEKHYm

Wapiti (elk), Mom and Calf
Jemez Mountains, NM

I spotted these elk running along while driving into the Santa Fe National Forest from the north side. Look carefully and you can see the calf is still sporting a few of its childhood spots.

#WildlifeWednesday #photo #elk #wapiti #NationalForest #PublicLands #NewMexico

The third in a short series of visits to all the lookouts on South Fork Mountain, one of North America's longest ridge lines. I just walked up the trail as near as I could. Half of it was still there. https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/06/pickett-peak-lookout.html

#California #SixRiversNF #TrinityCounty #TrinityNF #NationalForest
#hiking #dayhike #peakbagging #firelookout #landscape #wildflowers