[JohnA]

And here's another:

A new General Accounting Office (GAO) study http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03503.pdf, released on June 2, details the Forest Service's "serious financial and performance accountability weaknesses." According to the report, the Forest Service has not been able to provide Congress and the public with a clear understanding of what its 30,000 employees accomplish with the approximately $5 billion it receives every year.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=150-06042003

[Colorado Doug]

I noticed that the USFS has wasted a bunch of money on fancy new macho K-9 trucks with expensive light bars, etc. What on earth do they need to blow money on that sort of thing for? Except to help locate burn victims from their out of control fires perhaps.