Federal government needs more authority to properly manage nation's forests, Trump Cabinet members say
by Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times
Nov 20, 2018
2 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Federal agencies need more authority to choose how and where to cut down trees, remove dying vegetation and where to ignite prescribed burns if communities in the wildland-urban interface want to avoid another catastrophic disaster like the Camp fire, two of President Donald Trump's Cabinet secretaries said Tuesday.
For at least a century, the U.S. Forest Service took
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