Epitome of Condescendion

Payette National Forest Supervisor Keith Lannom says that if you don't agree with the unlawful manner in which the Forest Service is closing roads, it is because you are either too stupid, or too "anti-government" to understand what a glorious job that the Forest Service has been doing.

                      Above photo shows historic Stibnite structure unlawfully burned to the ground by the Payette National Forest 

Below are email exchanges between high ranking Payette National Forest management team members which paint a bleak picture as to how stupid they think the general public really are.

Forest Service considers any written information that doesn't agree with their pre-written narrative to be "negative".

Jim Egnew, Mineral Resource Specialist for the Payette National Forest, in a communication with the Forest Supervisor Keith Lannom, deliberately misspells a patron's name. Calls him "wingnut". Violating the Hatch Act, using a federal position of power and authority to attack a taxpayer because of their political beliefs. Keith Lannom didn't discourage his management team from disparaging a citizen's political beliefs, and later actively engages in attacking citizens based solely upon their political views. 

     Krassel District Ranger Anthony Botello refers to me asking the Payette National Forest to comply with NEPA and other federal laws as "customary rhetoric". He dismissed the offer to privately fund the bridge across Sugar Creek and never created a gofundme account like he led me to believe that he would. 

Seems Krassel District Ranger Anthony Botello is very good at promising to "collaborate" with people to their faces, then go behind their backs and do the opposite as was agreed upon, as displayed in this letter from the landowners at Cinnabar. Anthony Botello promised to work with them to obtain a special use permit for Sugar Creek Road, then had the road blocked with boulders and oblitertated all while telling the public "the road is in better condition than ever before".

Why did the Forest Service waste $9,000 in taxpayer money, improving a road, only to then obliterate it and render it impassable?

After obliterating Sugar Creek Road, installing boulders and gates to lock the landowners at Cinnabar out, as well as the public, Anthony Botello drafted a letter blaming the landowner at Cinnabar for the closure of Sugar Creek Road. Payette National Forest Supervisor Keith Lannom repeated that lie in his official response to US Senator Mike Crapo who conducted a Congressional Inquiry into the closure of Sugar Creek Road by the Payette National Forest. The above letter, and many more like it from the landowners, directly asked the Payette National Forest to stop blaming them for the closure of Sugar Creek Road. The blame game from the Forest Service continues on in spite of such letters. 

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The lies that the Payette National Forest continue to spew didn't sit well with the patrons of this blog or the general public. Many who wrote letters of concern over the closure of Sugar Creek Road to the Forest Service. All of those letters were ignored. Keith Lannom and his management team admitted to stalking dissenters on social media, and openly attacked them as "anti-government" and "wingnuts". Which is interesting, since many people who follow this blog actively work for the Forest Service and other government agencies, but disagree with the manner in which arrogant Payette National Forest personnel talk down to the general public, or disregard federal laws which must be followed by the Payette National Forest when closing roads to the public. 

Afterall, if you think that the Payette National Forest should follow NEPA and other federal laws, Keith Lannom says that you "aren't interested in facts". His minister of propaganda Brian Harris says that makes you "anti-government". Payette National Forest Minerals Resource Specialist Jim Egnew says that makes you a "wingnut".

Now I understand what the Payette National Forest means by "collaboration": agree with us, or we will simply stalk you on social media until you become smart enough to see that we are perfect, glorious and infallible. No public input welcome or needed.