Alt US Forest Service
@altusfs.altgov.info
📣 Speaking for the trees, and:
🌲 600 million forest acres
💚 193 million acres public land
🥾 164,000 miles of trails
🎣 400,000 miles of streams
🪵 Billions of board feet timber
🚰 Trillions of gallons clean water
🚫Not affiliated with USDA Forest Service
🌲 600 million forest acres
💚 193 million acres public land
🥾 164,000 miles of trails
🎣 400,000 miles of streams
🪵 Billions of board feet timber
🚰 Trillions of gallons clean water
🚫Not affiliated with USDA Forest Service
Yes! Being an #AltCitizen when pressures demand we “go with the flow” puts the power of resistance directly into the hands of the people.
“No” is a complete sentence.
I’m proud of my hashtag cloud from #BlueskyWrapped with #AltCitizen as my favorite hashtag!
#Resist
#AllOfUs
#AltCitizen
“No” is a complete sentence.
I’m proud of my hashtag cloud from #BlueskyWrapped with #AltCitizen as my favorite hashtag!
#Resist
#AllOfUs
#AltCitizen
January 1, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Yes! Being an #AltCitizen when pressures demand we “go with the flow” puts the power of resistance directly into the hands of the people.
“No” is a complete sentence.
I’m proud of my hashtag cloud from #BlueskyWrapped with #AltCitizen as my favorite hashtag!
#Resist
#AllOfUs
#AltCitizen
“No” is a complete sentence.
I’m proud of my hashtag cloud from #BlueskyWrapped with #AltCitizen as my favorite hashtag!
#Resist
#AllOfUs
#AltCitizen
I’ll just drop this in to illustrate commercial use of a “derivative” does not hold up as fair use in courts.
The key is AltNPS is selling a product nearly identical to Smokey Bear.
The idea it’s speech doesn’t hold when there’s a profit motive.
cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
The key is AltNPS is selling a product nearly identical to Smokey Bear.
The idea it’s speech doesn’t hold when there’s a profit motive.
cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
![From “DR. SEUSS ENTERPRISES, L.P., a
California limited partnership,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
COMICMIX LLC, a Connecticut
limited liability company; GLENN
HAUMAN, an individual; DAVID
JERROLD FRIEDMAN, AKA David
Gerrold, an individual; TY
TEMPLETON, an individual,
Defendants-Appellees.” An opinion: “Boldly text makes clear, the image conveys the sense of being stuck, with "time moving fast in the wink of an eye."
ComicMix also copied a scene in Sneetches, * down to the exact shape of the sandy hills in the background and the placement of footprints that collide in the middle of the page.
Seussian characters were replaced with Spocks playing chess, making sure they "ha[d] similar poses" as the original, but all ComicMix really added was "the background of a weird basketball court."
ComicMix likewise repackaged Go!'s text. Instead of using the Go! story as a starting point for a different artistic or aesthetic expression, Hauman created a side-by-side comparison of the Go! and Boldly texts in order ‘to try to match the structure of Go!!’ This copying did not result in the Go! story taking on a new expression, meaning, or](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nha4spv3om6bp274j4a3z7gq/bafkreia3ugnvppbxtt6hrzp26hre2drvp5loz5755ngdaq7vohg6rnhcde@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 3:04 PM
I’ll just drop this in to illustrate commercial use of a “derivative” does not hold up as fair use in courts.
The key is AltNPS is selling a product nearly identical to Smokey Bear.
The idea it’s speech doesn’t hold when there’s a profit motive.
cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
The key is AltNPS is selling a product nearly identical to Smokey Bear.
The idea it’s speech doesn’t hold when there’s a profit motive.
cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
Ok, my top used emoji from the past year cracked me up 😆
What a whirlwind— maybe followers can relate to feeling some combination of these over the last year!
I guess my top emoji are:
Tree Pray Love
🌲 🙏 💚
What a whirlwind— maybe followers can relate to feeling some combination of these over the last year!
I guess my top emoji are:
Tree Pray Love
🌲 🙏 💚
January 1, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Ok, my top used emoji from the past year cracked me up 😆
What a whirlwind— maybe followers can relate to feeling some combination of these over the last year!
I guess my top emoji are:
Tree Pray Love
🌲 🙏 💚
What a whirlwind— maybe followers can relate to feeling some combination of these over the last year!
I guess my top emoji are:
Tree Pray Love
🌲 🙏 💚
The data from the OIG’s report reflects staffing and attrition from pay periods 1 through 11 (January 12, 2025 - June 14, 2025), so no.
It would be nice to have an updated graphic like this one (from 2017).
If just ~10,000 staff dedicated to managing NFS lands in 2017… situation is worse now.
It would be nice to have an updated graphic like this one (from 2017).
If just ~10,000 staff dedicated to managing NFS lands in 2017… situation is worse now.
December 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The data from the OIG’s report reflects staffing and attrition from pay periods 1 through 11 (January 12, 2025 - June 14, 2025), so no.
It would be nice to have an updated graphic like this one (from 2017).
If just ~10,000 staff dedicated to managing NFS lands in 2017… situation is worse now.
It would be nice to have an updated graphic like this one (from 2017).
If just ~10,000 staff dedicated to managing NFS lands in 2017… situation is worse now.
www.oversight.gov/reports/othe...
USFS had 35,550 employees at end of 2024.
Trump / Musk drove off 5,860, a 16% loss.
Bear in mind ~11,300 = Fire, ~1.5K = R&D.
So, ~14K remain for admin, HRM, State, Pvt. & Tribal Forestry, Law Enforcement, Districts (154 nat’l forests, 20 nat’l grasslands) 😳
USFS had 35,550 employees at end of 2024.
Trump / Musk drove off 5,860, a 16% loss.
Bear in mind ~11,300 = Fire, ~1.5K = R&D.
So, ~14K remain for admin, HRM, State, Pvt. & Tribal Forestry, Law Enforcement, Districts (154 nat’l forests, 20 nat’l grasslands) 😳
December 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
www.oversight.gov/reports/othe...
USFS had 35,550 employees at end of 2024.
Trump / Musk drove off 5,860, a 16% loss.
Bear in mind ~11,300 = Fire, ~1.5K = R&D.
So, ~14K remain for admin, HRM, State, Pvt. & Tribal Forestry, Law Enforcement, Districts (154 nat’l forests, 20 nat’l grasslands) 😳
USFS had 35,550 employees at end of 2024.
Trump / Musk drove off 5,860, a 16% loss.
Bear in mind ~11,300 = Fire, ~1.5K = R&D.
So, ~14K remain for admin, HRM, State, Pvt. & Tribal Forestry, Law Enforcement, Districts (154 nat’l forests, 20 nat’l grasslands) 😳
The use of German style calligraphic, gothic font here strikes a nerve in an unsettling way for reasons I don’t know that the public widely understands.
December 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The use of German style calligraphic, gothic font here strikes a nerve in an unsettling way for reasons I don’t know that the public widely understands.
Grifters gotta keep grifting… even on Christmas morning🎄
This one was particularly aggravating, from another long-time culprit.
“Yes we advocate for our national parks & forests.”
No… you don’t.
Persistent “GoFundMe” pleas, though.
This one was particularly aggravating, from another long-time culprit.
“Yes we advocate for our national parks & forests.”
No… you don’t.
Persistent “GoFundMe” pleas, though.
December 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Grifters gotta keep grifting… even on Christmas morning🎄
This one was particularly aggravating, from another long-time culprit.
“Yes we advocate for our national parks & forests.”
No… you don’t.
Persistent “GoFundMe” pleas, though.
This one was particularly aggravating, from another long-time culprit.
“Yes we advocate for our national parks & forests.”
No… you don’t.
Persistent “GoFundMe” pleas, though.
Glad it made it to Bluesky. And the Chief seems to really get it, which is helpful:
The “real” Forest Service had a post up a few days ago on Facebook.
The “real” Forest Service had a post up a few days ago on Facebook.
December 23, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Glad it made it to Bluesky. And the Chief seems to really get it, which is helpful:
The “real” Forest Service had a post up a few days ago on Facebook.
The “real” Forest Service had a post up a few days ago on Facebook.
It’s not petty…
It’s why we don’t see “Smokey Bear’s Discount Tobacco” or “Smokey Bear’s ‘Babes in the Woods’” strip joint.
Curation protects tie between Smokey & wildland fire prevention:
It’s why “Only YOU” or “Think” = Smokey.
Yes, “Resist” is imperative, but it should not be for profit.
It’s why we don’t see “Smokey Bear’s Discount Tobacco” or “Smokey Bear’s ‘Babes in the Woods’” strip joint.
Curation protects tie between Smokey & wildland fire prevention:
It’s why “Only YOU” or “Think” = Smokey.
Yes, “Resist” is imperative, but it should not be for profit.
December 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It’s not petty…
It’s why we don’t see “Smokey Bear’s Discount Tobacco” or “Smokey Bear’s ‘Babes in the Woods’” strip joint.
Curation protects tie between Smokey & wildland fire prevention:
It’s why “Only YOU” or “Think” = Smokey.
Yes, “Resist” is imperative, but it should not be for profit.
It’s why we don’t see “Smokey Bear’s Discount Tobacco” or “Smokey Bear’s ‘Babes in the Woods’” strip joint.
Curation protects tie between Smokey & wildland fire prevention:
It’s why “Only YOU” or “Think” = Smokey.
Yes, “Resist” is imperative, but it should not be for profit.
Heads up to Forest Service families & visitors at Cherokee National Forest: a white supremacist group’s Southeast Tennessee compound is approx. 4 miles from from USFS lands outside Tellico Plains, TN.
Note nearby Gee Creek wilderness, Hiwassee River State Park.
Your best defense is awareness.
Note nearby Gee Creek wilderness, Hiwassee River State Park.
Your best defense is awareness.
December 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Heads up to Forest Service families & visitors at Cherokee National Forest: a white supremacist group’s Southeast Tennessee compound is approx. 4 miles from from USFS lands outside Tellico Plains, TN.
Note nearby Gee Creek wilderness, Hiwassee River State Park.
Your best defense is awareness.
Note nearby Gee Creek wilderness, Hiwassee River State Park.
Your best defense is awareness.
I have a rule, if it makes me laugh, you get to see it.
Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣
Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I have a rule, if it makes me laugh, you get to see it.
Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣
Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣
Today’s tailgate safety briefing:
Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds, be especially vigilant before eating.
Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds, be especially vigilant before eating.
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Today’s tailgate safety briefing:
Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds, be especially vigilant before eating.
Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds, be especially vigilant before eating.
You still have time to vote, West Nashville / Clarksville / Franklin and more.
Here’s a map of your district, if there’s any doubt if you’re voting tonight (Dec. 02).
comptroller.tn.gov/content/dam/...
Here’s a map of your district, if there’s any doubt if you’re voting tonight (Dec. 02).
comptroller.tn.gov/content/dam/...
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
You still have time to vote, West Nashville / Clarksville / Franklin and more.
Here’s a map of your district, if there’s any doubt if you’re voting tonight (Dec. 02).
comptroller.tn.gov/content/dam/...
Here’s a map of your district, if there’s any doubt if you’re voting tonight (Dec. 02).
comptroller.tn.gov/content/dam/...
Vote today, Tennessee.
Do you live in one of these TN-07 counties?
Does a friend?
Might be a good day to reach out.
Do you live in one of these TN-07 counties?
Does a friend?
Might be a good day to reach out.
December 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Vote today, Tennessee.
Do you live in one of these TN-07 counties?
Does a friend?
Might be a good day to reach out.
Do you live in one of these TN-07 counties?
Does a friend?
Might be a good day to reach out.
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Ah yes, the “emergency.”
Forgot about that 🤬
Found this in the documents @altdhs.altgov.info shared with me.
Forgot about that 🤬
Found this in the documents @altdhs.altgov.info shared with me.
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Ah yes, the “emergency.”
Forgot about that 🤬
Found this in the documents @altdhs.altgov.info shared with me.
Forgot about that 🤬
Found this in the documents @altdhs.altgov.info shared with me.
Spot on.
And the $300 M ballroom alone covers the cost of USFS R&D for one year, in the President’s Budget Request for FY ‘26.
Do we need a ballroom, or do we need pure and applied science that makes our forest, rangeland, and urban communities more productive, safer, & more resilient?
And the $300 M ballroom alone covers the cost of USFS R&D for one year, in the President’s Budget Request for FY ‘26.
Do we need a ballroom, or do we need pure and applied science that makes our forest, rangeland, and urban communities more productive, safer, & more resilient?
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Spot on.
And the $300 M ballroom alone covers the cost of USFS R&D for one year, in the President’s Budget Request for FY ‘26.
Do we need a ballroom, or do we need pure and applied science that makes our forest, rangeland, and urban communities more productive, safer, & more resilient?
And the $300 M ballroom alone covers the cost of USFS R&D for one year, in the President’s Budget Request for FY ‘26.
Do we need a ballroom, or do we need pure and applied science that makes our forest, rangeland, and urban communities more productive, safer, & more resilient?
If @democrats.org need to pass a CR to stop SNAP pain, I’d be ok with it.
But I think they owe it to federal workers missing paychecks, waiting in food lines to *aggressively* get message out explaining why this stand had to be made.
FDR is your legacy. Do him proud.
www.nps.gov/articles/fdr...
But I think they owe it to federal workers missing paychecks, waiting in food lines to *aggressively* get message out explaining why this stand had to be made.
FDR is your legacy. Do him proud.
www.nps.gov/articles/fdr...
October 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
If @democrats.org need to pass a CR to stop SNAP pain, I’d be ok with it.
But I think they owe it to federal workers missing paychecks, waiting in food lines to *aggressively* get message out explaining why this stand had to be made.
FDR is your legacy. Do him proud.
www.nps.gov/articles/fdr...
But I think they owe it to federal workers missing paychecks, waiting in food lines to *aggressively* get message out explaining why this stand had to be made.
FDR is your legacy. Do him proud.
www.nps.gov/articles/fdr...
Best I can tell, here’s Bush’s Eastern redbud (1991) and President Eisenhower’s N. Red Oak (1960, large tree on right), cropped photo from September 7, 2025 by @penguinsix.bsky.social who noted “Construction flags layout the perimeter of the new White House ballroom on the South Lawn” on X.
October 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Best I can tell, here’s Bush’s Eastern redbud (1991) and President Eisenhower’s N. Red Oak (1960, large tree on right), cropped photo from September 7, 2025 by @penguinsix.bsky.social who noted “Construction flags layout the perimeter of the new White House ballroom on the South Lawn” on X.
Turns out the movie “Idiocracy” envisioned too many standing trees at the White House.
Looks like it did predict a missing East Wing, though 😧
Looks like it did predict a missing East Wing, though 😧
October 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Turns out the movie “Idiocracy” envisioned too many standing trees at the White House.
Looks like it did predict a missing East Wing, though 😧
Looks like it did predict a missing East Wing, though 😧
On his 70th birthday, President Eisenhower “spoke from a platform on the South Grounds following the planting of a red oak tree presented to him by Commissioner Robert E. McLaughlin on behalf of the District of Columbia.”
October 14, 1960
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/235565
October 14, 1960
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/235565
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
On his 70th birthday, President Eisenhower “spoke from a platform on the South Grounds following the planting of a red oak tree presented to him by Commissioner Robert E. McLaughlin on behalf of the District of Columbia.”
October 14, 1960
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/235565
October 14, 1960
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/235565
Totally doable. A native plant nursery near you might have a northern red oak. Arbor Day foundation may also sell them as seedlings.
Look up your state forestry department— in Georgia it’s the GA forestry commission. They’ll have seedlings that are native to your state.
gatrees.org/wp-content/u...
Look up your state forestry department— in Georgia it’s the GA forestry commission. They’ll have seedlings that are native to your state.
gatrees.org/wp-content/u...
October 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Totally doable. A native plant nursery near you might have a northern red oak. Arbor Day foundation may also sell them as seedlings.
Look up your state forestry department— in Georgia it’s the GA forestry commission. They’ll have seedlings that are native to your state.
gatrees.org/wp-content/u...
Look up your state forestry department— in Georgia it’s the GA forestry commission. They’ll have seedlings that are native to your state.
gatrees.org/wp-content/u...
Well that definitely scratched the itch to “know,” while also sinking my heart as to the total loss.
Eisenhower’s northern red oak definitely destroyed 😭
17 inventoried trees destroyed, just in section 10 of the 2013 - 2016 inventory:
pubs.nps.gov/eTIC/WEPO-WI...
Great tip, thank you.
Eisenhower’s northern red oak definitely destroyed 😭
17 inventoried trees destroyed, just in section 10 of the 2013 - 2016 inventory:
pubs.nps.gov/eTIC/WEPO-WI...
Great tip, thank you.
October 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Well that definitely scratched the itch to “know,” while also sinking my heart as to the total loss.
Eisenhower’s northern red oak definitely destroyed 😭
17 inventoried trees destroyed, just in section 10 of the 2013 - 2016 inventory:
pubs.nps.gov/eTIC/WEPO-WI...
Great tip, thank you.
Eisenhower’s northern red oak definitely destroyed 😭
17 inventoried trees destroyed, just in section 10 of the 2013 - 2016 inventory:
pubs.nps.gov/eTIC/WEPO-WI...
Great tip, thank you.
I may be wrong; it may be a commemorative tree after all.
Based on location, appearance / size, this could be a northern red oak (#7) planted by Dwight D, Eisenhower (1960).
If 50 years old when planted (per Olmsted rule) a 125 y.o. red oak.
Page 164 of the PDF: npshistory.com/publications...
Based on location, appearance / size, this could be a northern red oak (#7) planted by Dwight D, Eisenhower (1960).
If 50 years old when planted (per Olmsted rule) a 125 y.o. red oak.
Page 164 of the PDF: npshistory.com/publications...
October 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I may be wrong; it may be a commemorative tree after all.
Based on location, appearance / size, this could be a northern red oak (#7) planted by Dwight D, Eisenhower (1960).
If 50 years old when planted (per Olmsted rule) a 125 y.o. red oak.
Page 164 of the PDF: npshistory.com/publications...
Based on location, appearance / size, this could be a northern red oak (#7) planted by Dwight D, Eisenhower (1960).
If 50 years old when planted (per Olmsted rule) a 125 y.o. red oak.
Page 164 of the PDF: npshistory.com/publications...
I know the one you’re taking about — I have the same curiosity.
From what I gather, it was not a commemorative tree.
But clearly very old.
Unsure of species. The one photographed looks like a type of oak to me.
www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...
From what I gather, it was not a commemorative tree.
But clearly very old.
Unsure of species. The one photographed looks like a type of oak to me.
www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...
October 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I know the one you’re taking about — I have the same curiosity.
From what I gather, it was not a commemorative tree.
But clearly very old.
Unsure of species. The one photographed looks like a type of oak to me.
www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...
From what I gather, it was not a commemorative tree.
But clearly very old.
Unsure of species. The one photographed looks like a type of oak to me.
www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...