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Article: Forest Service was warned on fire prevention; Inspector general says agency failed reforms.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 3, 2009
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Byline: Chuck Neubauer and Julie Pendray, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
LOS ANGELES -- Months before it dispatched its famed firefighters to California's historic inferno, the U.S. Forest Service was warned by its internal watchdog that it could not reliably decide which forests were most vulnerable to wildfires or take pre-emptive actions because it had failed to follow through on reforms it promised to make in 2006.
The April 3 warning from the Agriculture Department's inspector general about a continued shortcoming in the Forest Service's fire prevention program - called hazardous fuels reduction production - surfaced Wednesday as Forest Service officials ...