SFR USFS Budget Cuts

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While you are sitting in the crapper at the campground wiping the ammonia tears from your face because the toilet hasn't been cleaned in two months make a note to send a letter to your representatives and remind them that their job is to govern and provide, not retribution.

I foresee lots of little poop and paper piles in our public campgrounds - if it's you, go a little further away and dig a little deeper.
 
Nwbobber touched on an important point. The lack of road maintenance would likely lead to road failures which in turn could lead to increased sediment transport downstream.

Most of us are aware of the Chinook and steelhead problems in the Stillaguamish basin (USFS owns roughly 1/2 of the basin). A major problem is the amount of sediment being transported through the system. In the mid-1960s it has been estimated that 18,000 ton/year of sediment was reaching Port Susan. Now that is a very large pile of dirt (more than 7,000 10-yard dump truck loads). A similar estimated in 2015 estimated that sediment load (excluding the Oso slide) had increased to more than 668,000 tons/year.

Somehow, I think all that sediment is a problem for most salmonids in the basin. By the way in the same period the amount of sediment being transported down the Skagit has doubled from 1.250 million tons to 2.5 million tons.

Curt
 
Yard Sale said:
What percent of corporate tax rate would fully fund the USFS? 0.00001?
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What % of a top down staffing cut and a cut in unneeded services would pay to fully fund the forest service? A much better question. It takes the blame out of the equation.
 
Rob Allen said:
What % of a top down staffing cut and a cut in unneeded services would pay to fully fund the forest service?
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Are any of the services actually needed? Think of the money we could save if the entire department was axed. We should be thinking larger, who really needs the Department of Agriculture anyway?
 
Several of the USFS campgrounds that I frequent during the summer are adjacent to ski areas. The ski area corporations are subcontracted to maintain them. The campsites are well maintained and the toilets are cleaned daily, something that was never done when USFS staff were responsible. I agree with @_WW_ that unmaintained campgrounds can be a mess. People need to read this book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Shit-Woods-4th-Environmentally/dp/1984857134 or other similar ones.
 
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_WW_ said:
While you are sitting in the crapper at the campground wiping the ammonia tears from your face because the toilet hasn't been cleaned in two months make a note to send a letter to your representatives and remind them that their job is to govern and provide, not retribution.

I foresee lots of little poop and paper piles in our public campgrounds - if it's you, go a little further away and dig a little deeper.
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The USFS is dysfunctional in Deschutes County as it is, launch ramp docks at the prime lakes don't show up until several weeks or more after the start of fishing season and the toilets remained locked as well, forcing boaters to piss and crap in the surrounding woods. This year the launch ramps were pulled out of the water and toilets locked three weeks before the end of the season during a run of fine, mild weather. Jeff Perrin, who was still guiding those lakes, made a call to the local USFS office to register a complaint, and was told 'well, we had crews there doing some work so had them pull the docks as well." When asked why they had to lock the toilets, mumbles about end of season staffing.
At East Lake there is a 4'x4' boulder located at the end of a popular launch ramp that regularly scrapes up hulls and lower end units. This problem has been routinely brought up to the local USFS for years, I had a conversation with a office supervisor about it myself two years ago after witnessing an older couple damage their outdrive on the boulder.
"We don't have the equipment to move it"
"Well, hire a contractor with a long reach bucket"
"We don't have the funds to pay for it"
"Would you have the district manager call me"
Never got the call, rock still there.
 
Didn't you know money grows on trees? Wish they would stop cutting those trees down...
 
I’m getting mentally prepared for the USFS to lock the gate to my favorite lake because of the looming government shutdown. It is so frustrating. There is no infrastructure to maintain and yet they lock the gate every time there is a government shutdown.
 
I would be more worried about what happens when/if they actually try to cut 2 trillion dollars out of next years budget. Do you think they really care about us in the woods?
 
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