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Jim Risch: “What it does so simply, it tells the Forest Service that you should be using your prevention money for prevention…”

On the recordNovember 16, 2015
What it does so simply, it tells the Forest Service that you should be using your prevention money for prevention instead of putting the fire out.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch supports the Crapo/Wyden bill for prioritizing fire prevention funding.

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