Equine feces. They are completely unconstitutional. The USFS was set up in a conference committee and is illegal. It exists primarily to manage inventory for Weyerhaeuser.
Considering that I've written three books on environmental policy, habitat restoration, and regulatory racketeering, you have a lot of cheek "instructing" me about the supposed worth of these agencies.
I totally understand your feeling on this, as I am aware of the long history, especially with the BLM..
What I tried to convey is that because of the large amount of federal acreage, still growing, someone has to manage it. Someone has to patrol it for lease rights and hunting and recreational activity.
I am not at all trying to say that there is any good in these agencies or that the agencies should continue to exist as is.
It’s only that if closed, the required departments would likely need to be transferred to a different agency so that they can continue to do some very simple tasks and that is the management of federal land, just as we have people who manage federal buildings. They are tax payer assets and will need to have some sort of monitoring.
Either that or we sell them back into the private sector, but I doubt you can do that with all of it, and it may in fact become necessary, perhaps sooner then later.