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Related: Don’t starve the Forest Service Former Montana Congressman Pat Williams warns that the Bush administration is playing with fire – literally – in cutting the Forest Service’s budget.; Burning down the house Despite the promises of the Healthy Forests Act, the Bush administration has proposed sweeping cuts to community fire programs in the West; For sale: Your local ranger station? Facing severe budget cuts, the Forest Service is selling off property, and considering closing some recreation sites it considers too expensive to maintain; The push is on to privatize federal jobs The Bush administration has ordered federal land-management agencies to identify jobs that might be performed more cheaply by the private sector.; Socialism and the West Despite our reflexive fear of the word "socialism," the West was built on subsidized government efforts.

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