I did go to their meetings, I even spoke in public even though I am very shy. I went to every meeting within 50 miles, the majority of the attendees were against these policies and they spoke up and no one listened. I wrote letters to the editors in all the local papers and I had no argument or rebuttal because I researched them and made sense, even the rabid enviros wouldn’t take me on and still they got their way.
The federal government allowed the environazis to sue and it didn’t matter what we said.
Yes, there has been gross mismanagement by the U.S. Forest Service, mostly because of environmentalist whackos dominating the federal government.
Some of them are so far out they prefer to see forests burn because they think it produces a “natural” environment.