> You gotta pay for offices, equipment, consumables, etc etc. aka literally what I said in the next line :-) 35k is same Order-of-magnitude as the 50k I set.

> You gotta pay for offices, equipment, consumables, etc etc. aka literally what I said in the next line :-) 35k is same Order-of-magnitude as the 50k I set. Still no idea what to do/compare with those numbers tho --- numbers in sister comment say FBI has same budget/headcount, so... 300m pop vs 35k agents is ~10k:1, and since area-wise ~1% is urban and ~10% is forests... each Forest Service employee gets to keep and eye on ~100k house lots worth of trees? medium-sized city worth of forests per every man