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Council committee forwards prescribed‑fire bill to full council after questions on fund and qualifications
Summary
The legislative committee voted to forward a Senate bill that would create a $1,000,000 'prescribed fire cash fund' and expand reciprocity for burn managers to the full Colorado Forest Health Council for further review; members asked for DFPC and fire‑commission input on insurance, caps and certified-burner qualifications.
The Colorado Forest Health Council legislative committee on Jan. 24 voted to forward to the full council a bill aimed at expanding the use of prescribed fire across the state.
James, a staff presenter, described the bill as establishing a prescribed-fire cash fund seeded with a $1,000,000 appropriation and creating a claims‑style pool paid by plan participants and supplemental gifts, grants or legislative appropriations. "Basically, from a very top level, what this bill is trying to do is getting more prescribed fire on the landscape, and it's doing it in 2…
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