The Fix Our Forest Act Gains Traction

The Senate Committee on Agriculture, nutrition and forestry, has voted to advance the fix our force act. Kaitlynn Glover is executive director of the Public Lands Council, and she has more details on what this initiative is.

“This is a great bill led in the house by Chairman Westerman of the natural resources committee that's gotten out of the house a couple times. We're hopeful that we're going to be able to move this out of the Senate very quickly. But it not only expands the use of grazing as a hazardous fuels mitigation tool, right? Cows and sheep are able to consume grass. That is, is just that that terrible, terrible fuel, but it also creates a more systematic support system for producers who have lost allotments or have lost access to that forage because of wildfire. So that bill passed out of committee. There's a lot of other things in that bill. Of course, it talks about fixing the forest, but it's grasslands and rangelands too, and so we're very excited about that.”

Once again. Kaitlynn Glover with the Public Lands Council, the fix our Forest Act is bipartisan legislation. It was introduced in April by Senators Tim Sheehy of Montana, John Curtis of Utah, Alex Padilla of California, and John Hickenlooper of Colorado with today's line on agriculture report, I'm Lorrie Boyer for the Ag Information Network