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Forest Service, meet your original mission; you too have a lot of catching up to do.

December 29, 2014 | By TONY FRANCOIS

Capitol Press published my op ed online this morning, laying out the case that the United States Forest Service was originally founded to protect private water rights, but now steadfastly opposes them. The Forest Service has radically inverted its mission: closing publicly owned forests to public access, mismanaging forest conditions to create ex ...