Under smoky skies from wildfires far away this summer more attention is being focused on preventing them.
The new Forest Service Chief Randy Moore says the agency’s posture needs to move from defensive to an offensive one. Currently he oversees 10-thousand firefighters who along with backups are working to save communities and the natural landscape. At this point most of the funds used to remove dead vegetation has been moved into fighting 60 major blazes and hundreds of smaller ones.
Moore says more money directed at removal of underbrush and dead and dying trees in timber stands today would have a big payoff down the road.
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