Firings at the Forest Service Are Decimating an Already Understaffed Agency
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On a recent Friday afternoon, Marie Richards sat in her living room in northern Michigan. She was having a hard time talking about her job at the U.S. Forest Service in the past tense. “I absolutely loved my job,” she said. “I didn’t want to go.” Richards, a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, was a tribal relations specialist at the Huron-Manistee National Forests.