Sen. Wyden legislation: Seeks to cap agency costs for fire fighting – preserve fire prevention work.
Douglas Complex Fire
Summer 2013
ODF photo
Whether state or federal agency, they’ve all complained long and hard that spending money on fire prevention yields huge benefits but which are often obliterated when mega-wildfires consume mountains of cash to put out. And each year those mega-fires get bigger and more expensive. Fire prevention just can’t get any traction.
Senator Ron Wyden has stepped into the breach in an effort to find a way to ensure that fire prevention funds aren’t eaten up every summer because not enough fire prevention work has been done in our state and federal forests.
Here’s the story in the Oregonian. Click here.
