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

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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