“Pretty sure most of the local US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management employees in my town are part of the 40%!”
I spent two summers working in Idaho in the Clearwater Nat Forest, area. 1956/1957 after graduation from high school.
After two summers, I fell in love with that area and thought about moving west and becoming a forest guy and attending college at probably Boise State in Idaho.
My conservative grand dad warned me that as a conservative, I would not be happy. I didn’t go there.
A friend from another state, I had met and worked with in Idaho, stayed and spent the rest of his life there. That area, he and his family loved.
He stayed in the Boise area and didn’t work with the FS after 4 miserable years with the service after college. He joked that, I was the smarter one who avoided the Forestry Service.
Gorebull warming made working with the FS even more of a nightmare.
Thanks for the note, Dave.
I have several friends who worked for the F.S. their entire careers and retired from the org. ALL say there is no way they could have made it in today’s working environment.
Received an email from a F.S. employee informing a group of us about a person who was to present a talk on a local timber management issue. The person was identified by name, then, (she, her) following her name.
The entire organization is a politicized mess.