The Forest Service just had to divert another $250 million to fight wildfires

Posted by on Sep 19, 2015 @ 4:19 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: September 18, 2015

Top administration officials wrote Congress this week to urge it–once again–to change the way it budgets for firefighting in light of the disastrous wildfire season in the western United States. The Agriculture Department just informed lawmakers this week that it will have to transfer $250 million to fighting the forest fires now raging, which brings this fiscal year’s...

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