Wyden to Forest Service: Use Wildfire Funding Fix to Get Back to Work in the Woods
In a hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., pressed the interim chief of the U.S. Forest Service to explain how the agency will use a recently passed wildfire funding solution to restart forest prevention projects in Oregon that have been shown to reduce the size and severity of devastating wildfires across the West.