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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.”

nytimes.com/…/forest-service-research-stations.ht…

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ooterness@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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.

www.hatchmag.com/articles/…/7716263

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barnacul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You fell for the bullshit spin excuse

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