Forest Service FOIA Response Reveals ... Nothing

On April 7, 2015, the Forest Service responded to a FOIA request for records related to the Upper Echo Lake Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project.  The request was submitted to that agency more than 6 months earlier, on September 18, 2014.  An earlier post regarding the outstanding request is here.  The agency provided a few hundred pages of documents, and a very substantial number are similar to this:
And this:
This sort of response is contrary to the concept of open government that is the foundation for the Freedom of Information Act.

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