Can confirm, have worked for the forest service. It’s mostly skeleton crews to manage thousands upon thousands of acres. Even less in BLM lands, but that’s also because they are usually just rented for almost nothing to ranchers and oil prospectors (hence why we call them the bureau of livestock and mining)
a bunch of federal land isn’t maintained and especially out west you can just go fuck around in the middle of stolen nowhere.
Can confirm, have worked for the forest service. It’s mostly skeleton crews to manage thousands upon thousands of acres. Even less in BLM lands, but that’s also because they are usually just rented for almost nothing to ranchers and oil prospectors (hence why we call them the bureau of livestock and mining)