Colorado Senator Michael Bennet introduces legislation that would put billions into restoring and maintaining forests, watersheds and rangelands in the West.
The Biden administration can t stop wildfires. But it can make them less destructive.
Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post
Dec. 22, 2020
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Fields are watered on a morning where the atmosphere is mixed with fog and wildfire smoke from a near by wildfire in Salinas, Calif., on Aug. 28.Washington Post photo by Melina Mara
Rarely in recent memory has the United States seen a wildfire season as awful as in 2020. Scorching temperatures turned vast swaths of forest into tinder. Ferocious winds whipped small sparks into infernos, spinning up towering smoke clouds and terrifying fire tornadoes. Half the continent was suffocated by ash and smoke. By the time winter rain arrived, nearly 10 million acres had burned.
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