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Implore Your Senators to Oppose HR 3898

The fire retardant lobby wants Congress to amend the Clean Water Act to allow unregulated toxic heavy metal pollutants in fire retardant to be dumped into our nation’s streams and rivers. Most of our nation’s drinking water supplies come from these water sources. If this House-passed bill (HR 3898) becomes law, substantial sources of pristine […]


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Incentivizing Fire-Safe Development

Citing “short-sighted fire suppression policies and the rapid influx of people and development in hazardous regions,” Meghan Hodges argues for incentivizing wildfire-safe developments through fire-hazard mapping coupled with fire-adapted building codes and robust code enforcement. Hodges’ assessment was recently published in the Duke Law Journal and calls for spending federal mo...


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Forest Legacy Management Flexibility Bill

Introduced by California Congressmen John Garamendi (D) and Ken Calvert (R), the Forest Legacy Management Flexibility Bill (H.R.2771) “would give states the option to designate accredited, nonprofit land trusts to hold conservation easements purchased with federal funding from the U.S. Forest Service’s Forest Legacy Program,” according to a press release from the congressmen. Ga...


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Fire Retardant Leaves Lasting Impacts on Waterways

During the 2020 fire season, retardant-laden slurry bombers were scrambled to attack a small fire in Alberta’s mountains. One payload of Phos-Chek fire retardant was delivered directly into North Racehorse Creek, turning the stream red. University of Alberta researchers with the Southern Rockies Watershed Project measured the impacts on the aquatic ecosystem just two weeks [R...


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Secretaries Order Consolidation of Federal Firefighting

The Forest Service and other federal agencies missed the deadline of Sept. 10 to implement President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14308 mandating consolidation of federal firefighting into a single agency in the Department of Interior. A week later, the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture issued orders directing establishment of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service to […]


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