iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Apr 9, 2021 11:21am (Cameron Strandberg/Wikimedia Commons)
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday that the state will invest $536 million in preventing wildfires. That will include more than $350 million to improve forest management and to thin out the vegetation that fuels fires. It also includes $25 million in economic stimulus for the hard-hit forestry sector.
Some experts praised Newsom for the investment, but said California’s plan must go further.
“A $500-million appropriation would be huge, and they’ll need to do substantially more than that again next year,” said Paul Mason, vice-president of policy at the Pacific Forest Trust, a non-profit land trust and think tank that promotes forest conservation. “It will need to be in the billions.”
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