I’ve given up on expecting intelligence from the Forest Service. They don’t spray when they need to, so bark beetles convert millions of acres of land into firewood. Instead of cutting temporary roads into the firewood, so people can go in and harvest it, they let it sit and wait for a lightning strike. Lightning strikes, or careless humans happen, and they scramble to put out the fires that end up destroying millions of more acres of forest. Then, instead of cutting temporary roads to let people in to harvest the burnt wood for firewood, they come with a restoration policy, giving the land a chance to recuperate, and then once it is recuperated a little, they decide to start thinning and allow firewood cutting, so people can trample back over the recuperated forest, and so on. Let the firewood cutters, the thinners and loggers in as soon as the bark beetles or fires do there damage, and the overall damage will be greatly reduced. The people who want to utilize the woods are doing everyone a huge favor.
The forest service could make money by allowing loggers to do the work.
Now the taxpayers get to pay millions instead...