“decisions pertaining to the agency’s structure and the location of specialized personnel will be made after” the public comment period ends on September 30.

That's fucked up by itself. They're making the public comment process even more of a mockery than it already is.

They're doing the same to the NPS offices as well. Pretty much the entire science wings of the regional offices have been cut down significantly.

I know many don't understand why there are 6 biologists stationed at a regional office, but many parks only have 1-3 on staff with the smallest parks having none. Being able to send a team of 6 to parks a few weeks at a time to do projects is way more efficient than hiring full staffs at the parks.

Unfortunately they are not even hiring these positions at parks, just leaving them unfilled and duties uncompleted. It's bad

National Parks are managed by an entirely different department. This particular bullshit isn't fucking with Yosemite.

Specifically, the National Park Service is under the Department of the Interior, while the United States Forest Service is under the Department of Agriculture. They're totally separate all the way up to the President.

This is an article about the Forests, not the Parks

I really wish I lived in a world where doing this shit made a difference.

The goal wasn’t to encourage extraction, it was to prevent over-extraction.

I live in a National Forest that hasn’t had any large-scale commercial logging conducted in it for many decades. It has multiple designated Wilderness areas, and is primarily used for recreation. The major distinction between it and a National Park is that you’re permitted to drive motorized vehicles on the existing logging roads, and collect firewood with a permit.