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Will the U.S. Forest Service be abolished and save the country over 2 billion dollars?
Background: The Forest Service's program—which consists of spending close to $300 million per year treating hazardous fuels and as much as $2 billion a year preparing for and suppressing fires—will not restore the national forests to health or end catastrophic fire in most of those forests. In many forests it may do more harm than good.
Forest Service plans are based on the notion that western national forests suffer from an unnatural accumulation of hazardous fuels. In fact, that is probably true for no more than about 15 percent of those forests. The appropriate treatments on the remaining 85 percent may be as diverse as the forests themselves.
source: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8210
Forest Service plans are based on the notion that western national forests suffer from an unnatural accumulation of hazardous fuels. In fact, that is probably true for no more than about 15 percent of those forests. The appropriate treatments on the remaining 85 percent may be as diverse as the forests themselves.
source: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8210
Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source. As long as it is announced prior to suspension that the US Forest Service is being abolished the question shall settle as a YES.
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