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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 470248" data-attributes="member: 605"><h3>2,000 Federal Public-Land Employees Could Lose Jobs Amid Shutdown</h3>The Department of Interior will likely cut another 2,000 jobs from the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Geological Survey, Department <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/144HkV27w_hBOn91yga3O1RaNMtrXh3uk/view" target="_blank">officials announced Monday in a court filing</a>.The planned cuts were announced in the middle of a government shutdown, but according to sources familiar with the situation, the reduction in force, as it’s called, has been planned for months. A U.S. District Court judge ruled last week that the layoffs could not proceed during the shutdown. But even if the Department waits for the shutdown to end, people within Interior who spoke with Outdoor Life anticipate the layoffs will begin immediately after the government reopens.“We’re going to lose scientific capacity to inform habitat management projects and to manage harvest and the impacts of human disturbances like energy development,” says Ed Arnett, CEO of <a href="https://wildlife.org/" target="_blank">The Wildlife Society</a>. “And we not only lose capacity, but we might lose some of these programs forever.”<img src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1OV6gd.img?w=768&h=565&m=6" alt="Federal workers remove old barbed wire fences at a National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming. Photo by Keith Penner / USFWS" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Federal workers remove old barbed wire fences at a National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming. Photo by Keith Penner / USFWSScientific research and communications, particularly within the USGS, will be hit particularly hard. The USGS Great Lakes Science Center, for example, will lose 79% of its staff. The science center is responsible for restoring, enhancing, managing and protecting species living in the Great Lakes basin, <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/centers/great-lakes-science-center" target="_blank">according to its website</a>. Biologists and specialists there also monitor <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/centers/great-lakes-science-center/science/science-topics/algal-bloom-and-microbial-ecology" target="_blank">harmful algal blooms</a> and <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/publications/ten-lessons-controlling-invasive-species-wisdom-long-standing-sea-lamprey-control" target="_blank">invasive species</a>.The<a href="https://www.blm.gov/about/what-we-manage/national" target="_blank"> Bureau of Land Management</a>, which manages about 245 million acres of land, primarily in the West, will also be decimated. Interior plans to cut between 18% and 31% of the workforce at the southeast, pacific west and northeast regional offices along with the Denver Service Center and regional support. Cuts will also hit BLM state offices in Utah, California, Arizona, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Colorado. The BLM cuts come at a time of renewed efforts to sell public lands while also dramatically increasing oil and gas drilling, and mining.These anticipated layoffs would pile on top of <a href="https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/interior-department-fires-thousands-forest-service-workers/" target="_blank">a series of layoffs in February</a> that shed thousands of jobs from agencies within Interior and the U.S. Forest Service, which falls under the Department of Agriculture.NDA, some years ago a company needed to layoff. The joke was management went out to the parking lot looking for cars with Obama decals. Using that template, DOI should go out to the parking lot looking for Wildlife Society, Wildlife Federation, DU, PF, BHA bumper sticker and window decals. Fire the enviros first.</blockquote>

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