That sucks. My Forest is in the same boat. All of the funding we normally get, excluding the salaries of our permanent employees, went to the beetle forests. No seasonals, no $ for doing work on the ground, nothing. And they keep asking how we feel about doing details to some bug forest to work on their projects, even though that won't save any $ on our own forests. We had some backlash from it, as people pointed out that you cannot take it ALL, since we have expenses and commitments, such as feeding our horses, buying toilet paper, and the like. They compromised on a small amount of $ that is not really enough to do much, in my opinion. As people realize just what sort of impact it will have on the programs in the Forest, I expect it will cause more outrage, and maybe some $ will be scraped up somewhere to compensate.

If you have concerns, I strongly encourage you to write to the Regional Forester in Denver, and to your congresspeople.