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Thinning out wildfire costs

The U.S. Forest Service is becoming the Fire Service. Firefighting costs are guzzling about half its budget.

In 2000, the Forest Service spent $1.1 billion on firefighting. That was 21 percent of the agency’s budget. President Bush’s budget for 2009 proposes $2.1 billion for....

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