Moore surprisingly wasn't fired by Trump (and nothing to do with DEI), but he was upset about the workforce cuts. He voluntarily resigned and had already been eyeing a well-deserved retirement after 45 years with the USFS. The replacement is most certainly a huge downgrade, at best. In a twist of irony, it has really been the progressive environmentalists and legal organizations who represent those interests that have stood in the way of Moore (and the Forest Service at large) from being able to effectively do his job.
Everyone is well aware of the conservative capitalist's role as an arch enemy: All they care about is the privatization of public lands and turning profits from exploiting natural resources -- nevermind that we've only seen a one-way exponential increase in the amount of protected, publicly owned American wilderness over decades. On the other side of the coin is the progressive environmentalist standing in opposition to foresters, fire chiefs, and ecologists by obstructing necessary mechanized thinning and prescribed burning to remove overgrown vegetation and dry understory that has turned our forests into over-fueled tinderboxes for catastrophic wildfires.
It makes little sense, especially when those particular tools also help to mitigate disease and invasive species. So, the Republicans ever so ironically to the rescue? Nope, especially not when considering how labor intensive and expensive the aforementioned things are to do over any sizeable amount of acreage, and that's on top of the incredibly challenging terrain of the forests located in the Mountain West.
