On the heels of making a major announcement that US Forests could be opened to roads and logging, the U.S. Forest Service says it may start privatizing its public information staff. One hundred positions could be farmed out to private public relations firms pending a June 30th review. It's a sign of things to come as the Bush administration has began pushing it's Competitive Sourcing initiative. The program would make hundreds of jobs in the agency available for contract bidding. According to the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility the Forest Service spent $113,000 on a campaign to convince the public to accept plans for increased logging in California's Sierra Nevada's.