Forest Service Reorganization
District Court Halts Forest Service Reorganization
For more than a decade, Congress has barred the Department of Agriculture (USDA) from spending appropriated funds to reorganize the department without the approval of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, and since 2020 it has imposed the same requirement on...
Are Political Appointees Imminent for the Forest Service?
I've written of the uncertainty and impact of the Forest Service reorganization. I've written of how the reorganization fits within broader efforts to politicize the federal civil service and make it subservient to a powerful unitary executive, and I've written about...
Forest Service Reorganization: The Bigger Picture
When assessing the Forest Service reorganization, we must consider the bigger picture and broader changes occurring across the civil service. Doing so requires reading wonky government memos and regulations, but you can read straight through this analysis and skip the...
Forest Service Reorganization Threatens Public Lands
Kirsten Stade, reporting for Steady State Herald, recently spoke with FSEEE Executive Director Kevin Hood about the reorganization taking place within the U.S. Forest Service. The interview was part of a larger piece examining the Trump Administration's restructuring...
Wildfire Research and Response Face Uncertain Future
As communities across the western United States endure a severe wildfire season following an unusually dry winter, the research that supports wildfire response is being threatened. Over the past several decades, federally funded scientists have developed tools that...
Trump Cuts the Labs That Study Wildfire Smoke
In Ely, Minnesota, last week, the Air Quality Index (AQI) hit 797.5, nearly triple the threshold for "hazardous," and the highest reading the state has ever recorded. State climatologists are calling it the most intense wildfire smoke event Minnesota has seen in at...