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@KSLcom deport.

Peruvians in Utah will count among the voters casting ballots Sunday in Peru's presidential election with a polling place to operate in Salt Lake City. ksl.com/article/514816…

@phil_lyman we should turn the wasatch into a parking lot

But oil is just the beginning. Utah is home to the largest open-pit copper mine in the world at Bingham Canyon. We also have major deposits of uranium for nuclear power, potash, molybdenum, beryllium, and many other critical minerals. Together, these resources could supply 20-25% of U.S. demand for key materials.

@SirBadOpinions its something you can enrich the billionaires with

What possible good could come from this. It’s not even something you could own the libs over, the Forest Service helps preserve the beauty of our nation.

@ChrisBarnardDL anything this admin touches is worrisome

The outrage about the USFS reorganization is so fabricated. Most people simply didn’t bother to read beyond the clickbait headline. This just shows how desperately we need new conservation institutions that deal in nuance and reality, not emotion.

@Xenoimpulse indiafication

someone on here once called it the "used car salesmanification of america"

@TonyKorologos ive sat there many times

Epic dinner spot.

@aareksio @zeeg whens ur birthday

@zeeg A pony

Whats the most annoying gift you can get someones five year old kid?

@braxton_mccoy Yeah, I read it. I get your opinion about how Trump doesn't care about this, but I think we cannot remove responsibility where it matters. Especially when we know his allegiance lies with the money, a lot of these moves make sense...

@regexlover Hard to blame you. I covered that here fwiw

First thoughts here. Part 2 soon. I have to get back to work but will write more tonight and cover the other half of the discussion sparked by President Trump's decision to move FS HQ to Utah.

@blodgrevinnen depends on what grows there lol

someone saying the trail is unmaintained in alltrails reviews is the biggest green flag for a hike

@PerAlbinsGhost @ACC_National absolutely not

@ACC_National Do you feel the Trump administration deserves our trust and the benefit of the doubt on questions of conservation and public land use?

You've probably seen headlines this week about the Trump administration "dismantling" the U.S. Forest Service. There's a lot of noise, especially on social media, but let's look at what's actually happening: The reorganization moves USFS headquarters from D.C. to Salt Lake City and restructures from 9 regional offices to 15 state-based ones, while some staff remain in D.C. Governors from both parties, Cox (R-UT) and Polis (D-CO), have praised the move, and SLC is a well-connected city with the talent and infrastructure to support a major federal agency. The structural shift is also less dramatic than it sounds. The USFS already runs a decentralized operation. Going from 9 regional offices to 15 state-based ones is closer to a hybrid regional-state model. The "dismantling" framing all over social media doesn't hold up to scrutiny. That said, there are real concerns worth taking seriously, namely cuts to R&D, and broader budget pressure on an agency that manages 193 million acres of public land. There are still question marks about the implementation and extent of these cuts, but reducing the USFS’s capacity is real cause for concern. We are in one of the most severe drought years in recent memory. Underfunded, understaffed agencies don't operate better; this is not the moment to squeeze USFS capacity. There's also a concern that predates this reorganization entirely: the Forest Service already spends an enormous amount of time on paperwork. NEPA compliance alone can delay active forest management projects by years. Reorganizing the org chart doesn't touch that problem, and any reform effort that doesn't address it is leaving the biggest obstacle on the table. Getting rangers and foresters back out into the field and out from behind their desks is a worthy goal, but the Forest Service is struggling to keep up as it is. Fixing our forest service requires more than just redrawing the org chart; it requires fixing the underlying incentive structure tangling USFS in bureaucracy. Done strategically and with clear goals, a restructuring doesn't have to hurt the agency. Without those reforms though, it won't solve much either.

@brianovak red castle, nice

national forests are for us all. politicians elected to serve the people have become corrupt beyond redemption. these morally bankrupt ghouls will destroy what makes this country beautiful because it will enrich them personally. a better world is possible, but only if we make it

@Anixnix @phil_lyman what's nutty about that? if you divert the water that used to drain into the lake, the lake will disappear.

@phil_lyman We must not go along with the nutty idea that the GSL is going to go away. Nature ebbs and flows. There will be a time in the future where it will fill back up.

Utah gets 61 million acre-feet of water a year, and the anti-farmer crowd keeps pushing the lie that agriculture wastes 80% of it. Wrong. Rural Utah manages its resources responsibly. Farmers aren't the problem-they're the backbone. Stop the propaganda and start managing our forests so more water actually makes it to where it's needed.

@ChandlerForPB @HarrisonHSmith States cannot be trusted with this land. They prove this time and time again

@HarrisonHSmith They’re not getting rid of the Forests. They’re moving the HQ and giving more responsibility back to the States. This is a good thing.

The Left spent ten years screeching and protesting non-existent bullshit like the Handmaids Tale, but are nowhere to be seen when real opposition is called for.

@Empty_America its because they only serve the billionaires.

I remember in the early days of this administration there was a fantasy that "our guys" would get opportunities, a based version of NPR for the intellectuals, based forest service, etc. It's mostly just been cutting, with a special hostility towards public parks and forests.

@WasatchSnow Alta knows people will ski there

“Shop around and keep skiing” is refreshing branding compared to the million anxiety-inducing “buy now before prices go up!” emails I get elsewhere.

@liftblog snowbird is taking down chickadee fast

Winter may have ended early in the West but this weather's great for construction.

@astcbpe pretty sure theres a neighborhood there now

Western Nebraska, just past 168th and Dodge.

@levelsio @eastdakota man ur the goat for this complaint

@eastdakota Thank you!!

The main thing I miss on Cloudflare is a single [ Block IP ] button It boggles my mind it's not there, you can see a traffic spike and a person doing 50,000 requests per minute, but you have to write a security rule and go through 10 steps to block it Too difficult Just let me [ Block IP ] from the Security Analytics or general Analytics dashboard @daneknecht @eastdakota

@WasatchSnow lets just hope it doesnt all slide off

I still have hope for more powder early next week...