{"id":11483,"date":"2026-01-02T06:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=11483"},"modified":"2026-01-02T07:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T14:00:52","slug":"public-lands-usfs-works-sound-alarm-about-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=11483","title":{"rendered":"Public Lands – USFS works sound alarm about Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Union representatives for U.S. Forest Service workers in the Sawtooth and Salmon-Challis national forests are echoing some conclusions stated in an\u00a0internal Forest Service<\/a>\u00a0trails report recently obtained and published by The Washington Post describing widespread public and employee dissatisfaction with trails on federally-managed public lands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The internal report, published on Tuesday, Dec. 16, stated that services and public satisfaction in national forests across the U.S. will \u201ccontinue to decline in 2026 and beyond without direction to prioritize investments in recreation generally and the trails program specifically.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The report also stated that some districts across the country have lost up to 100% of their trails staff and \u201chundreds of years of trail expertise.\u201d It stated that Forest Service staff are experiencing stress and burnout.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In late 2024<\/a>, the Forest Service announced that it would lay off its entire seasonal, nonfirefighter workforce for the upcoming fiscal year due to budget constraints.<\/div>\n
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READ STORY: \u00a0Union representatives for USFS-Jan2<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\/\/\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 USFS 2025 Trail Status Summary<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Union representatives for U.S. Forest Service workers in the Sawtooth and Salmon-Challis national forests are echoing some conclusions stated in an\u00a0internal Forest Service\u00a0trails report recently obtained and published by The Washington Post describing widespread public and employee dissatisfaction with trails on federally-managed public lands. The internal report, published on Tuesday, Dec. 16, stated that services […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-public-lands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11489,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483\/revisions\/11489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}