Despite the lessened rhetoric online right now, our public lands are still very much under attack from the current administration. Senator Mike, my senator from Utah, still hates that we have access to public lands. The Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum is still doing his damndest to sell them all off. Budget cuts, personnel cuts, and massive riffs have decimated those working within the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.
The latter of which is set to be run by another Captain Planet villain, r.e, Steve Pearce, who was just nominated to the position and who's hated by just about everyone who loves public land. Basically, the fight ain't over, though I'd very much like it to be.
But within those cuts, something I've spoken about before, was funding cuts that'd affect avalanche forecasting and mitigation across the West. And at the time, I wrote that those cuts would likely get folks killed or seriously injured, as snowmobile season, along with backcountry snowsports like skiing and snowboarding, was just around the corner.
