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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 15 > Budget for wildfires, save USFS programs

Budget for wildfires, save USFS programs


July 15, 2008

The U.S. Forest Service has been caught between a rock and a hard place in recent years. Even as budgets stay the same or actually decline, the agency must spend more on fire suppression. Worse, if it spends more than expected on firefighting, it may well have to shortchange other programs to....

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