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On the recordJuly 15, 2015
fire suppression has grown from 16 percent of the Forest Service budget in 1995 to over 40 percent in 2014.
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Martin Heinrich
Democratic · New Mexico

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Heinrich discusses the unsustainable growth of fire suppression costs in the Forest Service budget.

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