“The Trail Status Program Report, obtained by The Washington Post, [no paywall] concludes public lands are deteriorating quickly after the Trump administration cut staff. Trails maintained by the U.S. Forest Service nationwide are being “abandoned” and deteriorating rapidly, threatening visitor safety, after the Trump administration cut staff, according to an internal report obtained by The Washington Post….The report states it is based on the accounts of nearly 300 district-level workers whom the Forest Service sent out to assess the state of the agency’s trails…The December report finds that some Forest Service districts have lost up to 100 percent of their trail staff under President Donald Trump, departures representing “hundreds of years of trail expertise”; that the remaining staff members are suffering widespread burnout and low morale, leading to “poor customer service”; and that millions of dollars in unspent grant funds have been returned to the agency, often because of vacancies or extra red tape imposed by the Trump administration…”