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House adopts wildfire resolution; amendment clarifies state tools for fuel‑load reduction
Summary
HCR5, urging policies to reduce wildfire damage, passed after the sponsor won adoption of an amendment clarifying state forest‑management actions (prescribed burns, mechanical treatments, salvage logging) and federal coordination. Debate touched on climate‑change language removed in committee.
The Utah House on Feb. 20 approved HCR5, a concurrent resolution urging policies to reduce damage from wildfires and directing attention to fuel‑load reduction and forest‑management tools.
Representative Ray Ward, sponsor of HCR5, described a pattern of longer and hotter fire seasons and urged action on fuel reduction tools such as…
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