Re: “Trump’s mass firings a gut punch to state’s outdoors departments” (Feb. 19, A1):
For the previous 31 years, I’ve labored for a nonprofit conservation group that purchases necessary conservation lands and conveys them into public possession. In that capability, I’ve spent an excessive amount of time working with employees from a wide range of land administration businesses such because the U.S. Forest Service and the Nationwide Park Service.
With out exception, the federal workers I’ve labored with have been hardworking, devoted public servants. Their work may be troublesome due to the myriad federal legal guidelines and laws that apply to federal land acquisitions. However that issue arises precisely as a result of the employees of federal businesses understands that once they purchase land for public possession utilizing U.S. taxpayer {dollars}, their job is to make certain the U.S. authorities will get good worth for its investments in public lands.
This professionalism and dedication to doing issues proper stands in marked distinction to the arbitrary and capricious method the Trump/Musk workforce have taken to decreasing the federal workforce. Justifying their haphazard decimation of federal workers by claiming to be doing so to root out waste, fraud and abuse is each a baldfaced lie and a merciless and cowardly slap within the face of all federal workers.
Tom Tyner, Bainbridge Island
