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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
one man should not be allowed to hand America's assets to his cronies and sidekicks
The ~~Confederates~~ Republicans have spent decades laying the groundwork for this. Every GOP member “elected” or appointed to any role has helped pave the way.
This is the way the world ends.
Brace yourselves for widespread Mossad set fires this summer and then a justification for being forced to sell off these lands for “maintenance”
The whole world is panicking as one lunatic is destroying everything. And there is nobody who can take him by the ear and pull him out on the street ...
There are people who can, but not people who can AND will.
I FUCKING HATE THIS COUNTRY.
But why destroy the research?
They're unironically Captain Planet villains.
To show the sheer contempt for the goodie two-shoes trying to save the world.
Yeah great, let’s put the logging industry in charge of the forests. Who cares about research projects when you’re going to cut down all the fucking trees anyway.
Gonna be a lot more fires in CA.
Not so fun fact: Forest fires over last 6 years have made global forests net carbon emitters instead of sinks.
Yeah, its not fun that we live in a place that is now on fire year round somewhere.
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/0e45bd0ef9814d5e9ec3f87900a4cfe9
Can you source this? Feels like a gross over exaggeration compared to the article I read before.
They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen 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, protect less, and get out of the way.
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
Next step, logging
Sweet mother Appalachia, the robber barrows are back. I grew up in the deep woods there, they have always been exploiting us. Please help save your rainforest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_temperate_rainforest
Yeah that's pretty misleading. The regional offices are being replaced with 15 state-based offices.
Same with the research program.
“The consolidation of research stations does not mean a retreat from the agency’s research mission,” Mr. Schultz said in the email. “Forest Service R&D has produced world-class science for over a century, and that will continue. The consolidation is about organizing the research enterprise more efficiently, not diminishing it.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen 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, protect less, and get out of the way.
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
You fell for the bullshit spin excuse
It’s such a shame. The US had such an exemplary park system, and now I anticipate the days where they bulldoze Yellowstone for a community of golf course condos that advertise their hot spring spa.
I hope the employees steal the data on the way out and give them to a university or some entity who can save them.
In retrospect we probably shouldn't have let a paedophile destroy the country.
Nobody could possibly have seen that coming.
There couldn’t have possibly been a detailed plan released by a conservative think tank that was actively involved in his election campaign.
Do you expect me to read all that? Nerd!
look at all the Palestinians that were saved because we didn't elect a warmonger like Harris.
this is an acceptable price to pay for saving all those children.
/s