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Montana resolution urges federal attention to forest management and wildfire strategies
Summary
Rep. Jedidiah Hinkle introduced a House Joint Resolution asking federal officials and governors to consider changes to U.S. Forest Service practices, focusing on active forest management, road maintenance and tactics for wildland fire suppression and use.
Representative Jedidiah Hinkle opened the hearing on House Joint Resolution 35, which asks federal and interstate leaders to reexamine U.S. Forest Service wildland fire and forest-management practices. Hinkle, a former Forest Service employee, said the resolution urges greater emphasis on timber management, road maintenance and more aggressive initial attack to reduce the risk of large crowning fires.
"Forest management and wildfire are so very…
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