Wildfires! Prevention vs. Suppression
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In the last five years, the US Forest Service budget has been consumed by the cost of fighting fires, while efforts to reduce fuels for fires has decreased. The nation continues to spend more on putti...
ng out forest fires and less on prevention. This has been a bad year for fire in the West. And as fires continue to burn, it seems like the right time to look critically at budget cuts that will severely restrict the level of fuels management and fire prevention work that can prevent catastrophic fires.
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