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Daines, Feinstein Introduce Forest Management Bill

from Missoula Current, Aug. 5, 2020

Daines, Feinstein Introduce Forest Management Bill Missoula Current, Aug. 5, 2020 In response to wildfires in recent years, especially the Camp Fire in California, Sens. Steve Daines and Diane Feinstein introduced a bill into the Senate that would permit the U.S. Forest Service to carry out large harvesting and burning projects with minimal public input. The Emergency Wildfire and Public Safety Act of 2020 would require the Forest Service to conduct logging and prescribed burns on three large landscape-level projects in the West. Governors would propose the projects. To give an idea of the size of a project, the Forest Service has considered some recent projects that have been hundreds of thousands of acres. READ MORE

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