Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service. “…the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a ‘reorganization.’ An execution.” https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution.

Hatch Magazine - Fly Fishing, etc.

@kottke

The forestry service protects America's birth right

Trump's fossil fuel donors want that birthright for themselves

Trump's treasonous collusion & the incalculable greed of his oil oligarchs
https://www.intellinews.com/putin-says-russia-and-us-discuss-joint-energy-projects-in-alaska-arctic-397615/

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-us-saudi-arctic-energy-rdif-ukraine-russia-capital/

https://newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/p/the-slow-motion-dismantling-of-americas

https://www.dw.com/en/us-national-parks-environment-donald-trump-mining-oil-gas-logging/a-76411423

https://www.npca.org/articles/11361-lawsuit-challenges-trump-administration-s-massive-public-lands-giveaway-in

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-proposes-opening-over-1-million-acres-of-california-public-lands-to-drilling-fracking-2026-01-12/

https://westernpriorities.org/2026/04/sneak-and-peek-how-the-trump-administration-and-congress-are-quietly-expanding-the-footprint-of-mining-on-public-lands-without-telling-the-public/

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/chaco-canyon-drilling-buffer-public-comment/

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2026/04/04/voices-how-trump-is-opening-up/

https://www.merkley.senate.gov/interior-appropriations-subcommittee-ranking-member-merkley-cuts-in-trumps-budget-request-to-leave-lasting-scars-on-public-lands-tribes-and-human-health/

https://www.eurasiantimes.com/putins-alaska-victory-u-s-energy-giant-exxon/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-25/us-eyes-post-war-joint-business-with-russia-in-energy-metals

Putin says Russia and US discuss joint energy projects in Alaska, Arctic

US President Donald Trump let more deadlines to impose crushing sanctions and tariffs on Russia to end the war in Ukraine slide yet again. The reason ...

@Npars01 @kottke
It's exhausting. Congress is on vacation way too much to stop this terrorism by FF billionaires.