10 year wildfire plan

Scientists tell us that we cannot stop wildfires from happening, but what we can do is begin the process of reducing the catastrophic nature of these fires. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in Phoenix, Arizona announcing a 10 year plan to do more thinning out of forests, removing dead trees and brush, improving the health of forests and making communities near them safer. So today Speaker2: With this plan, the Forest Service commits to treat 20 million acres of forest service land at levels over and above what we have been doing before and assisting in an additional 30 million acres of land that may be state, tribal or privately owned. First step in the plan identify priority areas to be worked on based on risk and Speaker2: As soon as they are identified beginning work this year to take these resources to get them to work as quickly as possible. Speaker1: Vilsack said most of the work is being made possible by nearly $3 billion from the infrastructure bill.