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📣 Speaking for the trees, and: 🌲 600 million forest acres 💚 193 million acres public land 🥾 164,000 miles of trails 🎣 400,000 miles of streams 🪵 Billions of board feet timber 🚰 Trillions of gallons clean water 🚫Not affiliated with USDA Forest Service
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Is it letting your good outdoor manners show? Pretty sure everyone here is gonna give a hoot and not pollute 🦉 #AltCitizen

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

The #AltCitizen is out in the world, & the Forest Service, standing up for what’s right against pressure to “go with the flow.” A few months (it feels like years) back, Marines now working at the Forest Service said “No” to DOGE’s phishing scheme. “No” is a full sentence, but they had more to say!

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Last summer, NM faced devastating wildfires and flooding. Our communities are still rebuilding. We're already facing another fire season, and federal firefighters and temporary workers haven’t been hired. The Trump admin’s cuts to the Forest Service could devastate our communities.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

“Responding resources include two types of helicopters, two engines, the Gila Hotshots and the Idaho City Hotshots. Two additional hotshot crews have been ordered as well as four additional engines.”

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

“In the past few months, many employees were laid off or took buyouts. Though the cuts have largely affected non-firefighting employees, many red-carded employees — qualified firefighters who are able to leave their day jobs to assist firefighting efforts — have been affected.“ 🟥

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

“These prescribed fires reduce risk to the public by removing hazardous vegetation to mitigate wildfires and prevent loss of property. They also help to re-establish fire’s positive role in local ecosystems, increase native plant regeneration, and improve wildlife habitat and forest health."

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

“Getting a contract approved for janitorial services, said one USFS who works on those procurements, previously took a day-and-a-half. With the added layers that DOGE has installed, it now takes six weeks.” #DOGE #RECEIPTS #ForestService

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

Via @oregonwild.bsky.social, I think. Sharing as it looks useful— there’s a toolkit to take action + other goodies. Call script: Sen. xyz should not support the Fix Our Forests Act. I oppose this bill because (choose a talking point) More: theclimateaccordingtolife.substack.com/p/update-fix...

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

Song of the Cedars. A good song to pause and reconnect with being part of nature, being human.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Is Rand Paul gunning to be an #AltCitizen? If so, Daniel Boone National Forest and its Forest Service workforce in Kentucky sure could use your help, Senator!

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

#AltGov or #AltCitizen, we must be free to speak up. Good job Emily, causing good trouble speaking up! Emily asked what a Congressman’s “red line” of unconstitutional actions might be. Surely there is one, yes? Her question was ignored, so she asked again. And again. The Lorax would be proud 🧡

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

15,000. That’s a lot of people, at the People’s Department.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The suspense has me all tied up 🪢 If I get RIF’d, do I become an Alt Citizen, instead of Alt Gov? #AltCitizen

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Today’s the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby 🤯 See you on the trails 🐴

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

How could I forget it’s #StarWarsDay! Thanks for the reminder, Spacey, and see you on Endor for the celebration later!

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

❄️ Hold ‘til it’s cold” ❄️ 16 more days to comment. 💡: “This is a very consequential rule change, with multiple and significant real world implications. Please extend the comment period to 90 days from the date of publication to allow adequate time to provide appropriately thorough comments."

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

“If this new-look Schedule F survives the inevitable court challenges, it will mark a major step forward in a MAGA quest laid out by J. D. Vance in 2021 to ‘fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state,’ and ‘replace them with our people.’” @theatlantic.com

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

One of the most inspiring essays I’ve read on resistance. www.vnews.com/Column-A-tim...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

“‘My fear is that if we do not stand up to protect our public lands, they could be defunded or privatized, and ultimately, worst-case scenario, developed,’ said Alicia Bynum, founder of Appalachian Outdoors Collective.”

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I forgot DOGE controls DOI now. Great…

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

basically no one wants to defund national parks - and even 3/4 of republicans want to maintain or even increase funding for national parks and forests and yet there's basically no political cost for them doing this.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments