Fire suppression has grown from 16 percent of the Forest Service budget in 1995 to over 40 percent in 2014.
Martin Heinrich: “Fire suppression has grown from 16 percent of the Forest Service budget in 1995 to over 40 percent in 2014.”
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Heinrich discusses the unsustainable growth of fire suppression costs in the Forest Service budget.
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