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Attacks on Feds Spike at Some Agencies
By Eric Katz
June 1, 2016
... Threats and assaults jumped primarily at the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, according to data provided to the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility through the Freedom of Information Act. Incidents involving the National Park Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ticked up slightly last year compared to 2014, while confrontations with Fish and Wildlife Service workers dipped slightly and those with U.S. Park Police dropped significantly.
The increase in incidents was concentrated in the western United States, PEER -- an alliance of government officials and environmental advocates -- found ...
Assaults on BLM employees nearly doubled to 28 incidents in 2015, while they increased at the Forest Service by 60 percent to 155 instances. PEER, which tracks the data annually, noted the assaults had been trending down but that pattern reversed itself in recent years ...
http://www.govexec.com/management/2016/06/attacks-feds-spike-some-agencies/128750/