[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.

[JohnA]

I'm going to take that as a rhetorical question, Doug.

In the early days of the project, we had a rec'd anecdote
about Forest Service conventions; apparently a true story:

A convention (one of the many) was held in Montana and the local rental agency had a special on white Lincoln Continentals just for the occasion.

When a convention session broke up one afternoon and the conventioneers all went to the bar, on exit later that evening, Forest Service conventioneers were beside themselves trying to make their set of keys fit in the right white Lincoln.