Advocates for a more aggressive approach to managing forests aren’t letting up on a campaign to nudge the Senate toward approving a bill to speed forest thinning and wildfire preparation.
On Thursday, the nonprofit group Megafire Action said in a position paper that failing to pass the bipartisan legislation, called the “Fix Our Forests Act,” S. 1462, from Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah), would lead to more environmental harm from wildfires.
“Inaction is an environmental decision,” the organization said in the document released by Megafire Action’s federal affairs and research directors, as House Republicans also continue to clamor for the bill’s consideration.
Without a stepped-up management system, the advocacy group said, the result will be “long-term, large-scale ecological degradation.”
