Excellent article
EDITORIAL: BWCAW reservations
Many, including private contractors, played a role in the recent misfire
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https://www.timberjay.com/stories/editorial-bwcaw-reservations,14853

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Good article, and a very salient point. Let's all of us do our part and offer a kind word to Forest Service employees, to let them know they are appreciated.

Agree, they went into this line of work because they love the outdoors like we do.

Yes the article points out that Forest service employees were taking the heat for their superiors and the private contractors. Government employees have to start standing up to their superiors and say this won't work and is wrong. The people of the Northland where screaming this will not work and it didn't! Maybe next time? These private contractors and government officials many times have a very cozy relationship. Many times the contracts are attached as pork in a bill as a favor to a senator or congress person.


Whos pays the bill? Us or the contractor. This cost the businesses of Northern Minnesota a lot of time and Money!!! Many people have already switched their plans from a bwca trip to another location.

Lets not confuse an editorial with an article or truth or good, or we would have an unvaccinated population dodging deadly diseases and alien fire. :)

We will never know the truth as with almost everything that is washed through the big Washingtonmachine.

That said the local FS folks aren't to blame and generally helpless. The bwca is small potato's. Maybe there is some complicit behavior, but who is to blame that in the face of the dictatorship the has embroiled the Dept of Interior.

Our complaints need to rest at the steps of our elect.

adam: "Lets not confuse an editorial with an article or truth or good, or we would have an unvaccinated population dodging deadly diseases and alien fire. :)

We will never know the truth as with almost everything that is washed through big Washington machine.

That said the local FS folks aren't to blame and generally helpless. The bwca is small potato's. Maybe there is some complicit behavior, but who is to blame that is the face of the dictatorship the has embroiled the Dept of Interior.

Our complaints need to rest at the steps of our elect. "

Very well said, Most of the local foresters have less say than you or I often do. Bottom line is lets work together as overall the forest service and others have done to make it a better place. Life and changes has ups and downs a little corrections. Think of it in today's world. Here we are talking about an enjoyable recreational experience in today's world. We are very lucky.

Note: So many people miss a opportunity to visit the BWCA in the winter, be it day trip or winter camping. So much fun. Permits are automatic.

adam: "Lets not confuse an editorial with an article or truth or good, or we would have an unvaccinated population dodging deadly diseases and alien fire. :)


We will never know the truth as with almost everything that is washed through big Washingtonmachine.


That said the local FS folks aren't to blame and generally helpless. The bwca is small potato's. Maybe there is some complicit behavior, but who is to blame that is the face of the dictatorship the has embroiled the Dept of Interior.


Our complaints need to rest at the steps of our elect. "

Right On

adam: "

That said the local FS folks aren't to blame and generally helpless. The bwca is small potato's. Maybe there is some complicit behavior, but who is to blame that in the face of the dictatorship the has embroiled the Dept of Interior.
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I have worked for the federal government for nearly 30 years firefighting. I was a little wheel retiring as a GS-09, we pawns took alot of heat for things that were way above our pay grade. We shrugged it off when the public got in our faces. I worked three years for the Superior NF in Isabella, when I first arrived there I took alot of heat, mostly from loggers, when I left I was buddies with almost everyone, they realized that I had little say and was just doing my job.

I know I'm splitting hairs here Adam, but the Superior NF is under the Dept of Agriculture not the Interior Dept.

The Dept of Agriculture who oversees the USFS was in my opinion a top heavy dept, managing everythig from food safety to farm programs, and beyond. The Interior Dept where I spent the majority of my time was more streamlined. I always felt (even as a pawn) that my voice had some clout in local district decisions at the Dept of the Interior, I felt I had little to no say in the Dept of Argiculture.

Thanks to all those who have/will have some input in this thread. Yes, articles can be heavily biased but it's through the exchange of information that we sort, become better informed and learn.

quote from the article:
"Forest Service folks rarely try to defend themselves, even in cases, like the current one, over which they had little control. Let’s be clear— no one on the Superior National Forest was involved in creating the online system that failed on Jan. 30. The coding that goes into the creation of such online systems might as well be ancient hieroglyphics to the vast majority of us, and that includes the folks who work on the Superior."

ellahallely: "Yes the article points out that Forest service employees were taking the heat for their superiors and the private contractors. Government employees have to start standing up to their superiors and say this won't work and is wrong. "

That is not normally how it works in any type of work environment. The executives make the decision, the supervisors relay to their employees and find a way to implement, then the employees sometimes just have to plug their noses and do the work, even if they don't necessarily agree with the strategy (assuming no laws are being broken. That would obviously change things.)