Here, the impacts of short staffing at the Forest Service become more obvious. The Trump administration fired an estimated 3,400 Forest Service employees nationwide at the start of his second term in office. But the Forest Service ultimately let go of hundreds of “red card holders” with credentials to assist on wildfires and had to hire employees back . There are fewer Forest Service staff to patrol for abandoned campfires and educate visitors this year, she said. “We’ve worked with the Forest Service on prescribed fires, fuels treatments (and) vegetative restoration.