The Bush administration is getting ready to outsource jobs that protect our forests. It will consider replacing 10,000 positions, nearly a quarter of a workforce of 44,000, by 2007.
Under President Theodore Roosevelt the United States government decided to change the way we managed natural resources. With the help of Gifford Pinchot, his main conservation adviser, policies were developed and laws were passed to insure that resources would be managed using utilitarian principles. Utilitarian conservation suggests that renewable resources should be managed so that they will never be exhausted.
It’s a shame Bush wants to undo all that.
Lynwood
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