The Big Picture –
By Glynn Wilson –
COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir and Gifford Pinchot are turning over in their graves as Donald Trump launches a devastating war against the conservation movement at the same time he sent the U.S. military to attack Iran.
“With the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice,” according to one writer on Substack, “the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a ‘reorganization.’ An execution.”
The administration announced it would move the U.S. Forest Service headquarters out of Washington, D.C. to Salt Lake City, Utah, home to the most anti-public-lands movement in America.
Read the full column in the New American Journal.