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Forest Service Considers Outsourcing Two-Thirds of Workforce - Land Use Issues March 2006

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Forest Service Considers Outsourcing Two-Thirds of Workforce

WASHINGTON, DC, February 27, 2006 (ENS) - The U.S. Forest Service is studying how to contract out more than two-thirds of its total workforce by 2009, according to agency planning documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the national association of workers in natural resources agencies.

In addition to Bush administration plans to sell off 300,000 acres of Forest Service land included in the Fiscal Year 2007 budget proposal to Congress, the agency is also seeking to privatize environmental, law enforcement, firefighting, engineering, and research positions.

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