Haley Stevens: “I remarked today at the hearing that we had in the Appropriations Committee on the Interior appropriations bill, 2.2…”

“I remarked today at the hearing that we had in the Appropriations Committee on the Interior appropriations bill, 2.2 million acres of my State burned last year. We have a series of very devastating fires going already. One of the worst problems we have is the infestation of insects in trees that now have been dead for a couple of years. If a fire starts in those areas now, we will have a catastrophe of unknown size. I join the Senator from Nevada in offering an amendment to provide additional funds to deal with fire prevention as well as the firefighting amendments we have in the bill already.”