Forest Service cuts 15 employees in Va., with more to come

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The federal cuts alarm conservation organizations that work with the Forest Service to help it manage more than 1.6 million acres of national forests in Virginia for a recreational and commercial use, as well as environmental protection.
40% : Steele, a Staunton resident who worked for nine months at Cave Mountain Lake in Natural Bridge in the Glenwood-Pedlar Ranger District, was one of four laid-off federal workers who appeared on MSNBC before Trump spoke to a joint session of Congress last week.
35% : But she won't because the U.S. Forest Service laid her off last month, along with 18 other probationary employees who lost their jobs in the first wave of layoffs that President Donald Trump's new administration is carrying out as part of a sweeping effort to slash the federal government workforce.

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