Doug LaMalfa

It is critical for the survival of our communities, forests, and safety of fire crew members to utilize retardant when deemed necessary.

Congressman LaMalfa's bipartisan Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act will ensure our land managers are able to continue to use fire retardant to save lives, protect communities, and contain wildfires.

I am in full support of your proposed legislation H.R. 1586, Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act of 2023.

So, we are talking about a pretty safe material here. And those folks that are trying to thwart that are really putting a lot of land, a lot of acres, a lot of wildlife, and a lot of people and communities in great harm.

The ACRES Act is a simple solution to hold our Federal agencies accountable, to see the actual work they are doing will reduce the enormous risk of wildfire.

I appreciate your leadership on this critical issue and that the legislation has strong bi-partisan support.

In the Forest Service testimony, it was expressed that the Biden administration opposes touching the Clean Water Act.

Across the West, we continue to face a wildfire crisis.

And we should be ashamed, totally ashamed, when we let our public lands grow up to where they are fire hazards...

Yes, and we are so far behind, though, now it is really hard to introduce the fire, so we have to do a lot more mechanical harvest and find a narrow window of time in the winter or whatever that you can actually burn things, which I…

The use of retardant is a vital tool that our firefighters need to have at their disposal.

This bill is important for firefighters to have the tools to fight these devastating wildfires.

It is imperative that we maintain our ability to fight wildfires effectively.

Thank you for your commitment to our nation's forest landowners. We look forward to working with you on more commonsense pieces of legislation this Congress.

It is imperative that we enhance rather than hinder the resources to keep our private working forests operating so they can provide the clean air, pure water, and quality jobs that our nation depends on.

I support your efforts on H.R. 1586!

We appreciate your leadership on this critical issue and that the legislation has strong bi-partisan support.

I fully support your efforts on H.R. 1586.

I gladly support for H.R. 1586, Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act of 2023.

We appreciate your leadership on this critical issue and that the legislation has strong bi-partisan support.

I support your efforts on H.R. 1586.

Providing a Clean Water Act exemption so that federal, state, local, and tribal firefighting agencies can continue to use fire retardant is necessary to keep this tool available.

We must be able to fight wildfires with everything we have.

We appreciate your leadership on this critical issue and that the legislation has strong bi-partisan support.

This is the wrong time to limit the use of Fire Retardants as a tool in combating these wildfires.