Letter: Wildfire fund will help mitigate the inevitable
Durango, Colorado
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021 11:03 AM
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Thank you for your story about the Southwest Wildfire Impact Fund (SWIF) (March 25,”Durango, La Plata County look to new funding model for fire mitigation”).
In 2020, Colorado broke its record for the largest wildfire three times.
Past fire suppression policies and a lack of active management have left us with unnaturally dense forests or, in simpler terms, a lot of fuel out there. If we do what we have always done, we will get what we’ve always gotten!