Wildfire policy leaders slam Trump’s firefighting proposal

“Creating a separate fire management agency from land management agencies will sever the connection between fire management and land management,” Ingalsbee said. “It will lose that stewardship ethos, and it will just become a kind of municipal fire department in the woods.” 

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