The unreported reality is that the USFS is doing everything in their power to transform all National Forests into Defacto National Parks.
Not parks with a little shack that collects fees for entry, but parks where there is no timber harvest or management, the elimination of grazing permits, closure of existing travel roads and elimination of new road construction and continuing the stupid concept of managing wildfire rather than fire suppression.
This is obvious on the NF in Idaho where I live and is an unstated management objective for all forests.
Our local forest “management” totally rejects the concept of timber harvest as a fire management tool, and every summer we have to endure the results.
But parks where there is no timber harvest or management,
Timber harvest is a form of conservation here in California like Tahoe area they don’t allow it half of the trees are dead by getting chocked out lack of sun and many fires.
Years ago the had conservation camps the cleared out such areas now that they no longer exist we have many more forest fires due to it.