oh oh OH i am so here for this

Please help us stop the illegal dismantling of the Forest Service actionnetwork.org/letters/cong... (we're the largest FS union representing 20,000 Forest Service employees including many of the ~7000 being forced to move) @altnps.bsky.social

Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.

Gonna get to see the inside of the more rarely used Big Claims Court, which exists almost exclusively for the tree law

don’t fuck with tree law 😤

GSA implemented significant staffing cuts without analyzing impacts on its work, and agencies throughout government are feeling the impacts via @seanthenewsboy buff.ly/rqia6uf

They did no performance evaluation of the people they laid off. So they can’t make any claims about their performance. What we do know is: 1. The people fired had more experience than the people hired 2. The new hires come via a political process where they have to detail their support for Trump

Trump gave Musk & DOGE bros unlimited power. Now we’re all paying the price. From #SocialSecurity data, to lives lost and #climate inaction, the damage is real. Demand Congress 🔍 #InvestigateDOGE Learn more: www.198methods.org/2026/04/16/d... Take Action: bit.ly/48r81av

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

seriously hope when dems get back in power they go after every single fuck involved with DOGE

Elon Musk was the “mastermind” behind this program. The next Dem president should seize this + interest from him.

We will be learning about the damage caused by DOGE for years to come, and we may not ever really ever know the full extent.

I don’t disagree with removing the college degree requirement, but it should be for *all* series, not just tech jobs. In my field, you still need a degree to count trees for a living.

DOGE baby!

alright, i’m gonna refrain from complaining about fire camp food after seeing this

The 'Musk used SpaceX to buy Cybertrucks' story is going around but Electrek was on this shit awhile ago! There's so much scammy shit out there in the wild about Elon and yet the markets keep floating his ass

Glad to see Amanda Scales made the list (mayhaps from my tip a few months ago? 👀). I will add that no one knows what some of the lesser known DOGE folks — Tyler Hassen and Stephanie Holmes, DOI — are up to these days. We don’t even know if they’re still in government.

timber production needs to stop being lumped in with oil & gas and mineral development humans have been practicing sustainable forest management for millennia. trees grow back in our lifetime! you know what doesn’t? a fucking copper mine.

if you care about climate change, part of YOUR responsibility is changing what you eat. i don’t eat beef. i don‘t eat almonds or pistachios, or products with those nuts in them. you don’t have to go vegan to make a difference.

u are not the boss of me blue sky

as someone who works adjacent to this industry, there’s a reason i stopped eating beef in 2020

this is incredible— the 2017 WTREX in Yosemite was one of my first introductions to prescribed fire, and it was so meaningful to have that experience surrounded by women. happy and safe burning to you all!

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just popping on here to remind everyone that being married is cool as fuck and if you don't like your partner you're doing it wrong

Enjoy your national forests folks!

helpful thread for my CA homies who don’t know who to vote for now 👇

"Project Liberal" is run by Jason Pye, whose CV includes 7 years at Freedomworks, and Tyler Harris, who worked for the Libertarian National Committee for a half-decade. if you fall for this shit you're the biggest sucker ever born

You see what I mean? This is high literature.

don’t know what genre this is but I’m fucking obsessed with it

i am screaming at this description of my office presence: “only occasionally seen”

1) i am back on my bullshit 2) if you can guess where i am, i’ll buy you a drink

Loss, peril, and opportunity: as federal agencies shrink and reorganize, keep in mind that Tribes are not “stakeholders.” Tribes are governing bodies with exclusive, concurrent, and conflicting jurisdiction in relation to federal, state, and local governments (and individuals) in Tribal homelands.

Just checked DOI's Wildland Fire Service web page and nowhere could I find the words Duty, Respect, or Integrity, which are the guiding values/ethos of the wildland fire community. If I missed it, that means it could be more prominently featured. If the words are truly not there, they should be.

working throughout the rural west is wild because I’ll just be having a normal day and then a colleague says something like, “oh yeah don’t get too close to that property boundary, that’s rupert murdoch’s vacation house“ ??????

what

can i offer you a nice stream restoration in this trying time

the audacity of my department to have a “DEFERRED RESIGNATION PROGRAM DEADLINE: APRIL 12” announcement right above a “NOW RECRUITING FOR A DEPARTMENT-WIDE INVASIVE SPECIES RAPID RESPONSE TEAM” is, well. we aren’t working with the best and brightest!

new fun drinking game: take a shot every time a coworker says, “i’m scared for this fire season” (please don’t do this. you’ll be teleporting to a waffle house by 10am)

like the artemis ii astronauts, i, too am dissociating from Real World™ problems [drinking at a bar in rural california, town population: 168]

was looking forward to getting taxes back on all the overtime I worked last year (since DOGE cuts are making us all work more!) until I found out you don’t qualify if you’re married filing separately 🫠

Man, High Country News has been dealing my whole adult-ish life and they are definitely worth a follow & any support you can throw. Just consistently great journalism that covers the Western US. I came across this book in Denver's Tattered Cover bookstore in the 80s & have been hooked ever since.

The Forest Service has been an extraordinary public organization. The Trump administration is trying to dismantle it. open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

Western Watersheds Project filed a lawsuit today seeking public documents from the U.S. Forest Service under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain long-overdue requests for information about public lands livestock grazing in Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Nevada.

We don’t usually defend bosses. But when a bad boss goes after THE Boss and our union brother? We won’t stand for it.

not me watching this Pam Bondi news live at Planet Fitness 😭