“If any reporter wants to document/evidence Forest Service neglect, he must first pay the FS for permission to do so or face a fine.”
Sounds to me like the makings of a nice lawsuit against the Feds. First Amendment rights and all that and freedom of the press.
The feds have become like butlers who, due to the passage of time, came to believe they owned or inherited the mansion and curtilage.
They are custodians, not proprietors; stewards, not kings.
The problem is ... what we got here with the federales, is a failure to communicate. We call the shots. It belongs to us, not the U.S. Forest Service.
Another example is the Forest Service obeying their master’s voice, after his most recent demand that the debt limit be lifted, and closing outdoor monuments and veteran’s memorials.
They work for us, not the head hired hand.