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Western US lawmakers push to protect watersheds from impacts of wildfires

A bipartisan team of lawmakers from Colorado and Utah are urging Congress to help safeguard the nation’s watersheds by considering a new bill aimed at expediting the cleanup of contamination caused by wildfires. The Watershed Protection and Forest Recovery Act, co-sponsored by Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah), would accelerate watershed recovery efforts… ....

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Saving forests, saving lives, saving water and Shared Stewardship in Utah

Forests across the country, particularly in the West, are suffering from insect infestations, overgrowth, and catastrophic wildfires that roar through entire communities and ruin water supplies. Utah and its federal partners and multiple other groups reached an agreement to help. ....

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How shared stewardship aims to save lives, forests and water in Utah

The Department of Agriculture s Forest Service Shared Stewardship program with Utah brings partners together to develop and protect healthy forests and safeguard critical watersheds. ....

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Legacy logging industry, nearly pushed out of the Kamas Valley, seen as key to reducing fire risk

The logging industry has a 160-year history in the Kamas Valley but has been nearly pushed out. Officials see it as key to reducing fire risk. ....

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Are water supplies at risk from fires? Shared Stewardship tries to help

Utah’s Dollar Ridge Fire in 2018 was an ominous knock at the door for water supply managers trying to keep water flowing to a million residents.
That fire led them to invest in a $28 million upgrade to the Duchesne Valley Treatment Plant after debris and sediment washed into Starvation Reservoir.
“We were able to treat the quality of water, but it brought to our attention another process that would be more protective,” said Tom Bruton, assistant general manager of the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, explaining various filtration systems.
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An Interior Department report notes that 80% of the nation’s water supply originates on forested lands areas that are under increasing assault due to catastrophic wildfires that especially plague the West and threaten water quality. ....

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