Forest Service overhaul prompts union fears of chaos and forced relocations
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Trump-era plans to overhaul the US Forest Service would move the headquarters to Salt Lake City, consolidate research in Colorado, and shutter regional offices in favor of state directors, prompting unions to call the change illegal and warning it could force staff to relocate or resign and endanger public lands management amid prior staffing cuts and reduced wildfire mitigation.
- ‘Illegal’ forest service overhaul risks causing ‘chaos’ across US public lands, union claims The Guardian
- Forest Service axes research stations as severe fire season threatens Pacific Northwest KUOW
- Bartlett Experimental Forest to close as part of Forest Service consolidation plan New Hampshire Public Radio
- Forest Service wildfire research office to close despite drought Tallahassee Democrat
- Smokey Knows: President Trump’s Forest Service Restructuring Is Bad News The Equation - Union of Concerned Scientists
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