“I have heard from reliable sources that the private forests are healthy and better taken care of than our national forests that in reality belong to all of the people.”
That’s because the private forests are maintained by businessmen who need them to make a profit, while the government, “managers” are simply “recipients”of a taxpayer-funded “jobs program.”
Plus, I think that to hired into the USFS in today’s world, and perhaps for the last 30 years, one had to demonstrate that he/she is afflicted with a subliminal, pyro-manical disease.