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Steve Pollick: Fed layoffs pose a lot of questions for Ohio’s outdoors

The sweeping cuts to federal natural resource employees has succeeded in sewing chaos and confusion, fear, anxiety, and uncertainty among federal public lands and outdoors-related agencies, offices, programs, and more with their stream of staffing and other cuts and edicts in recent weeks.
Ohio outdoors folks will see the results here as the weeks and months unfold. But trying to swallow it all in one gulp is like trying to drink from a fire hose.

Steve Pollick: Fed layoffs pose a lot of questions for Ohio’s outdoors

The sweeping cuts to federal natural resource employees has succeeded in sewing chaos and confusion, fear, anxiety, and uncertainty among federal public lands and outdoors-related agencies, offices, programs, and more with their stream of staffing and other cuts and edicts in recent weeks.
Ohio outdoors folks will see the results here as the weeks and months unfold. But trying to swallow it all in one gulp is like trying to drink from a fire hose.

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