You are making the rather large assumption here that doing this review was actually a good use of his time. I don't see where that has been demonstrated. The article does mention that the USFS has limited resources to direct towards these reviews, so it's pretty possible that ignoring a review he didn't think was a big deal was reasonable.
I'm not making an assumption (large or small) that the review was a good use of his time...it was his fucking job.
You may say I am making a large assumption about that as well, except it is evidenced by the fact he began the review (15 years late) and worked on it for 4 years.
I further guess what you are saying is Government employees despite having job responsibilities and duties should have complete and total independent discretion as to what their time is best spent doing...makes sense they are the experts after all.
Of course it was part of his job, but I'm not going to take 6 paragraphs from some reporter and assume that I have a crystal clear picture of the entire story.
