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‘It’s a purge right now’: Payette, Boise forests impacted by Forest Service cuts
https://valleylookout.com/2025/02/18/boise-payette-forest-cuts/ ^ | 2/19/2025 | Drew Dodson

Posted on 02/22/2025 10:22:12 AM PST by cuz1961

...Sidney Noble clocked out from his job as a botanist for the Payette National Forest last Friday afternoon after surviving the first wave of federally mandated workforce cuts. By Sunday night, he too had been fired. ..

The statement said the USDA let go employees in the probationary period of their employment....

...The firings have left vacancies across the Payette and Boise forests that employees who have not been fired claim will be difficult, if not impossible, to fill....

... Those projects include work related to wildfire risk mitigation, timber harvest preparations, ,,,......environmental reviews,,,,,,and maintenance of bridges, roads, campgrounds, and signage.

(Excerpt) Read more at valleylookout.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: doge; drewdodson; elon; elonmusk; environment; forestservice; nationalparks; wholetthedogeout
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here is all you need to know why the infiltrated communists in the land grab agencies are upset ...

" Shannon Kane was fired on Sunday night from her job as a planner tasked with administering National Environmental Policy Act reviews of the district’s projects.

“Anything that we do—timber projects, range, prescribed fire—every single thing that the Forest Service does are federal actions that go through NEPA,” Kane said. "

1 posted on 02/22/2025 10:22:12 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

I expect to see leftist terrorists intentionally set fires to make Trump look bad.

These people will stop at nothing.


2 posted on 02/22/2025 10:23:29 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cuz1961

Yup, its a tree.


3 posted on 02/22/2025 10:23:43 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: cuz1961

National Environmental Policy Act

“Anything...... that we do........—timber projects, range, prescribed fire—.....
.....every ...

...single thing .....that the Forest Service does..... are federal actions that go through NEPA,” Kane said.

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there you have it. the infiltrated communist NEPA jackboot on the neck of EVERY SINGLE THING.

spit.


4 posted on 02/22/2025 10:25:32 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

Trees are plants, like lettuce.

It’s okay to harvest them and plant more.


5 posted on 02/22/2025 10:26:58 AM PST by lurk (u)
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To: cuz1961
"Sidney Noble clocked out from his job as a botanist"


6 posted on 02/22/2025 10:28:58 AM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: cuz1961
Every single action is studied to death these days.

No common sense.

7 posted on 02/22/2025 10:31:08 AM PST by Mogger ( 7th generation Vermonter, refugee in New Hampshire hoping NH remains sane.)
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To: cuz1961

I wouldn’t call it a purge. I’d call it trimming the fat or downsizing.


8 posted on 02/22/2025 10:31:16 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: cuz1961

Are the remaining employees claiming they can’t perform necessary Forest Service tasks like basic maintenance and wildfire mitigation? If so, fire them, too. And hire someone capable of providing basic services for forest management. The remaining forest service employees don’t have nearly the own they think they do.


9 posted on 02/22/2025 10:31:16 AM PST by SSS Two
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To: cuz1961
every environmental document needs a deep check of its math for fraudulent data.

all
of
it

this is where the eco commie crimes get committed .

more agency eco employees need investigated for fraud and fired,

not less imho.

10 posted on 02/22/2025 10:31:39 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: dfwgator
I expect to see leftist terrorists intentionally set fires to make Trump look bad.

Sadly, I wouldn't doubt it.

11 posted on 02/22/2025 10:31:57 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: cuz1961
One of my favorite Louis Jordan tunes:

"Everything that's made of wood was once a tree"

12 posted on 02/22/2025 10:34:35 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: cuz1961

Forest service and parks need to be STATE forests and STATE parks.

Outside of Article I, Clause 18, the feds have no business on state lands.


13 posted on 02/22/2025 10:37:30 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: cuz1961
spotted owl survey

our wildlife biologist admitted to me that he swapped suitable habitat acreage number with total acreage , thus cooking the books to get the owl listed as endangered

when in fact there was a nesting pair every 1.5 miles in suitable habitat in our resource are that proved it was 100% saturation ,, not only not endangered,, but as thick as the birds would nest.

SPIT

i tried to blow the whistle

no one would touch the subject with a 10 foot pole

i did not receive another gs5 nte 180 as a silviculture contract administrator.

go figure.

14 posted on 02/22/2025 10:39:06 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

Back in the 90s, I had a brother-in-law who worked for the Forest Service. He’d been working there for about 15 years. He was telling me that with all the new affirmative action BS going on, his region ended up with a Hispanic woman being left in charge. He got really pissed when she met with his bunch and actually told them, “All you white boys might as well start packing. You’re not going to be around much longer.”


15 posted on 02/22/2025 10:39:07 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cartel Human Smuggling Into America IS NOT Immigration. It's a crime.)
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To: faucetman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8mjam7KG8


16 posted on 02/22/2025 10:40:50 AM PST by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: Jim W N

Minnesota would just give the land away.


17 posted on 02/22/2025 10:42:17 AM PST by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

All maintenance should be privatized.


18 posted on 02/22/2025 10:42:33 AM PST by resistance (abandon all hope and rational thought, become a democrat)
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To: cuz1961

I live in Payette Idaho, which is the county seat of Payette County, which is where Payette national Forest is located.

I am happy this woman and others like her got fired.

Which in my book means this is a good start.


19 posted on 02/22/2025 10:47:34 AM PST by OneVike ( Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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To: cuz1961

Maybe if the Gederal Government got out of the business of managing more than 50% of the land in Idaho and gave it to the State to run this might solve the problem.


20 posted on 02/22/2025 10:48:15 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
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