Job losses on the forest

by Skip Kowalski and Kirk Thompson, Co-chairs, Bitterroot Forest Collaborative

The Bitterroot Forest Collaborative recognizes that forest management can be labor intensive. We understand that the Bitterroot National Forest has, at times, been unable to provide as much maintenance and as many services as it considers desirable, due to a shortage of staff. We therefore want to express our concern both for the employees that have recently been or will soon be terminated and for the BNF as it tries to meet the challenges of forest management in a complicated environment.