AZ Wildfire Expert Optimistic About the U.S. Forest Service Overhaul. Others Are Not so Sure.

AZ wildfire expert optimistic about the U.S. Forest Service overhaul. Others are not so sure.

Ahead of the 2026 wildfire season, current and former forestry leaders discuss drastic reorganization plans involving wildfire services and public lands.

Hilary Eisen: Proposed Forest Service overhaul trades local expertise for bureaucracy

Montanans should be alarmed by the U.S. Forest Service’s sweeping reorganization plan. It’s a proposal that needlessly undermines our national forests when they’re already under historic strain.

PBS Defends Forest Service Bureaucracy From Reform With Sob Stories, Scare Tactics

PBS Defends Forest Service Bureaucracy From Reform With Sob Stories, Scare Tactics Monday’s PBS News Hour pushed the sympathy buttons and employed scare tactics to protect yet another government agency threatened by Trump-era reform and budget cuts, the U.S. Forest Service. Reporter William Brangham implied federal employees deserve to be shielded from harsh job cuts, in a way American workers in the private sector have not. (Journalists also t…