Little confirms that you’re the right choice for the Trump Administration quite like an attack piece by the New York Times. For Idahoan Michael Boren, an appointment to serve as Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment, a job that would put him atop the US Forest Service, has come with scrutiny over previous dust-ups with the agency that he may soon oversee.

While some view his previous encounters with the agency as disqualifying, others see them as proof that he’s exactly the right man for the job to course-correct an agency that has been widely criticized in recent years for mission drift from its traditional role

of active forest management to one of forest preservation.

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