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Article: REP.RAHALL'S FLAME ACT PRAISED BY FIVE FORMER FOREST SERVICE CHIEFS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 25, 2008
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The House Natural Resources Committee issued the following news release:
Five former chiefs of the U.S. Forest Service came out this week in support of the FLAME Act, legislation introduced by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) to establish a federal fund to cover the growing costs associated with fighting catastrophic, emergency wildland fires.
In a letter to Rahall, former Forest Service Chiefs R. Max Peterson, F. Dale Robertson, Jack Ward Thomas, Michael P. Dombeck, and Dale N. Bosworth wrote, "If money is appropriated for the FLAME fund, we believe this will create the opportunity to rebuild the capability of the Forest Service to protect and manage the ...