The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) has applauded passage in the US Senate of Legislation to improve efforts to fight catastrophic wildfire by creating a dedicated fund within the Forest Service to pay for fire suppression activities and prevent other valuable land management programmes from being raided in heavy fire years.
The legislation, known as the Flame Act, was recently passed as part of the 2010 Interior & Environment Appropriations Act.
“Catastrophic wildfires do immeasurable harm to habitat, valuable public forest resources and, often times, the privately-owned forests that border public lands,said AF&PA president and ceo Donna Harman.
