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Folk Band Targeted by Obama's Campaign Against E-Bureacuracy

The Obama administration wants to rethink its digital presence. But first they'll cut unnecessary websites, starting with the Forest Service's band.

The Obama administration's newly inaugurated "Campaign to Cut Waste" had an unlikely first target: The Fiddlin' Foresters, the official folk group of the U.S. Forest Service. The band, whose self-declared mission is to "bring conservation and stewardship messages alive through story and song," made the mistake of hosting its website on a taxpayer-backed .gov domain.

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