Angie Craig: “I went home to my beautiful State of Idaho and watched it burn-- hundreds of thousands of acres of timberland…”

“I went home to my beautiful State of Idaho and watched it burn-- hundreds of thousands of acres of timberland, grassland, wild habitat, and environmentally sensitive land burned with catastrophic fires that were too dangerous, too hot, and too powerful to put firefighters in the face of to try to stop them and protect these beautiful natural resources. In fact, I never thought I would return to Washington, DC, in search of clean air. But it is true. The air is cleaner over our Nation's Capital today than it is in my beautiful State of Idaho, or Montana, or those Great Basin States of the West that are known for spaciousness, vistas, and clean air. This year's fire season may well prove to be the worst in half a century.”