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North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet. (mander.xyz)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 141 points 7 months ago (19 children)

This is so outrageous that I find it hard to believe. The cost of the entire US Forest Service must be minuscule, especially if you compare it to cost of waging unnecessary, illegal, and unethical wars all over the planet.

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  • [–] 127 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I'm sure this isn't really about saving money. It's about destroying the US Forest Service. That's the direct goal.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    This is also the second time that he's tried this. The first time was during his previous term, and though he was forced to reopen everything by the courts, the fact that he sold some of the federal land to (I think) oil companies was never acted upon, despite it being illegal to sell public land to corporate interests.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah this is more of a re-org than an elimination. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html

    Still seems like it might cause problems but it's not the catastrophic change some people are making it out to be. And the Forest Service isn't just a bunch of tree-hugging conservationists their mission is basically the sustainable exploitation of US forests. So for that reason they are very important to industry.

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  • [+] -31 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    It’s actually $9B a year…which I wouldn’t call “minuscule” like PBS was.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Wildland Fire Management and the Wildfire Adjustment

    The largest share of FS appropriations goes to the WFM account. The WFM appropriation funds preparedness, or fire prevention, detection, equipment and training; wildfire suppression; and salaries and expenses.

    Overall, in FY2025, 51% of the agency's discretionary appropriations, including supplemental appropriations, were provided for these two accounts (26% WFM, 25% wildfire adjustment).

    https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF13101

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  • [–] 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The point is Trump will never do anything that isn't for deeply personal reasons. And he would never do anything solely to save money on the budget, he doesn't care about that at all. So either he does this out of pure spite, because it is a "liberal" thing, or more likely he does it because he has been bribed by whatever industries are eager to turn all that forest into shortsighted profit.

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