Letter: Support public lands workers

Dear Editor,

Increasingly we are seeing an irrational and unfair anger build up against public lands and the people who work for the federal government. The High Country News, on Oct. 27, 2014, published an extensive article about threats and physical violence against people who work for the Forest Service, the BLM, the Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and others. We should, however, ask ourselves, “What would the western United States be like without these land agencies and their employees?” One individual, a rancher, saw it both before and after major federal oversig...