Leadership Corner
Most of us who’ve been doing this work for a while have a NEPA story. An environmental impact statement of such bulk that it doubled as a doorstop. An environmental assessment that ran 200 pages but didn’t have an answer for the one question a member of Congress asked. A project that was ready—scientifically sound, collaboratively developed, operationally needed—going through a lengthy review while the landscape it was designed to help protect burned. These stories aren’t folklore. They’re documented outcomes of a process that lost its proportionality and delayed good work as reliably as it screened out bad work. USDA’s...
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