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jtommins.bsky.social • 10 days ago

wrote about the dream of public lands and what it means to lose it
https://www.jamietommins.com/p/losing-the-dream

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mountainash.bsky.social•10 days ago

This choked me up.

wildwoods.bsky.social•10 days ago

Good piece, altho is debatable whether or not USFS is a 'bad agency.' Certainly many programs do good works, but the timber-first agenda does not belong in the 21st century -- and likely to grow even more extreme under autocracy.

timberdoodlydoo.bsky.social•10 days ago

same. timber should be a tool in the kit, but not the primary one.

you can do extraordinary restoration/wildlife work with a good timber shop, but there are so many projects that didn't meet timber's requirement for sufficient volume, and were cast aside. projects that'd avert catastrophes.

wildwoods.bsky.social•10 days ago

Agreed. Ecologically informed silviculture is a necessary ool, but not generally what USFS does, despite their rhetoric. Shameful.

timberdoodlydoo.bsky.social•10 days ago

I remember reviewing NEPA docs for sales I was supposed to administer in the PNW and seeing "Forest Health" and "Insects and Disease" as the primary reasons they wanted to clearcut thousand-plus year old old growth stands and just being baffled at the audacity of it all.

wildwoods.bsky.social•10 days ago

My experience too, working on a NorCal forest in the early 90s. Nothing else mattered but ASQ, say whatever in order to get there.

jtommins.bsky.social•10 days ago

all good points, but i didn't argue the forest service was a "good" agency, but simply not uniquely bad in the realm of compromised federal agencies. but since my piece is aimed at radicalizing laid-off employees, "dont fret, your employer was evil anyway" seemed like a poor angle to take

wildwoods.bsky.social•10 days ago

*tool

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