Two Colorado county commissioners testified Thursday in favor of U.S.
Rep. Scott Tipton’s Healthy Forest Management and Wildfire Prevention
Act at a House subcommittee hearing. The bill would increase state control over
forest management on federal lands and allow governors to designate
areas as “high risk” and take collaborative action with federal
officials to prevent wildfires. Tipton,
R-Cortez, introduced the bill in the 112th Congress in July, but it
died without coming to the House floor for a vote. Tipton reintroduced
it in this Congress, the 113th. On
Thursday, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and
Environmental Regulation cleared the bill to make its way to the full
House Natural Resources Committee for markup. “This
bill allows those who are most directly impacted by wildfire to take
proactive measures to be able to address the problem and mitigate the
root causes of catastrophic wildfire,” Tipton said at the hearing. “The
status quo is no longer good enough. The status quo has given us decades
of declining forest health. The status quo has given us years of
increasingly catastrophic wildfires. The status quo puts people,
communities and the ecosystems at risk.” More than 9.3 million acres of land burned last year, according to the National Interagency Fire Center...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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