Every state in the country has problems with homeless people, but some blue states allow this to get worse.
In Oregon, the U.S. Forest Service planned to perform the necessary maintenance work in national forests, but initially had to clean up a significant homeless population.
The types of work required are brush clearing and controlled burns. California is a type of work that was ignored and could have led to wildfires earlier this year.
Pay attention to the method Associated Press It frames the story and suggests that homeless people have been “pushed” out of the forest.
The US Forest Service begins cleaning homeless camps in Oregon National Forest
Dozens of homeless people who lived in central Oregon national forests for years were kicked out by the U.S. Forest Service on Thursday. This closed the area of ​​the wildfire prevention project, which included removing small wood, cleaning up debris and setting up controlled burns across thousands of acres.
The project has been featured in the book for many years, and the decision to remove the Deschute National Forest camp comes two months after the Trump administration issued an executive order directing federal agencies to increase timber production and forest management projects aimed at reducing the risk of wildfires.
Kaitlyn Webb, a spokesman for Deschutes National Forest, said in an email that the closure order was “in direct link to forest restoration work.” Meanwhile, advocates of the homeless were seized Thursday after U.S. Forest Service officials blocked access roads.
Ward Clark commented on this Redstate:
Let’s straighten one thing. These people are “not being kicked out.” “Turned out” means you have the legal right to be there in the first place. They are trespassing, breaking all environmental regulations in the Forest Service books about camps, preventing taxpayers from legitimate use. Camping is legal in national forests and takes acceptable time. Most forests have a 14-day limit. Some of these people have been occupying the site for years.
These forests should be for the fun of all Americans, not for the homeless.
