The House Natural Resources Committee will vote this week on a host of Republican-led bills addressing wildfires and forest management.
The committee will also consider legislation that would block a Biden-era plan to expand by up to 700,000 acres a national wildlife refuge in Texas.
Republicans for years have pushed to ease environmental reviews and other hurdles related to forest management. Rep. Tom McClintock’s bill, “Proven Forest Management Act,” H.R. 179, is in that vein.
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The legislation from the California Republican would extend to the rest of the country a law that’s been in place in the Lake Tahoe Basin of California since the Obama administration.
