Kate and Aaron talk to Steve Ellis, a 38-year veteran of both the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management and current chair of the National Association of Forest Service Retirees, about what the Trump administration is doing, and trying to do, to the Forest Service, and what that means for everything from logging to wildfires.

• How Congress and Trump are working together to drill, log, and mine virtually all public lands – Westwise
• Mass layoffs can move forward, with devastating impacts for conservation and science – High Country News

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Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss 

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Music: Purple Planet

Featured image: Oregon Mt. Hood National Forest Trillium Lake; USFS/Flickr

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