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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, July 06, 2024
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a fresh $500 million in funding for wildfire mitigation Tuesday and warned lawmakers to keep the Inflation Reduction Act's forestry funding aimed at its current purpose.
All levels of government need better tools to predict the location and timing of wildfires, which destroy property but also cause health problems for firefighters and the public, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee heard Wednesday.
The Agriculture Department is moving to improve its firefighting efforts in the West with more than $490 million in funding provided by the Inflation Reduction Act.
The federal government’s Drought Resilience Interagency Working Group is helping coordinate the distribution of $13 billion provided by the infrastructure bill as drought continues to hammer western communities.
The Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture unveiled projects it says will contribute to the management and recovery needed after prolonged wildfire seasons in recent years.
More money is on the way for producers who had previously filed for assistance through Department of Agriculture programs to help feed their livestock after suffering through inclement weather in 2021.
The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service announced that targeted cattle grazing successfully contained three rangeland wildfires in the Great Basin over a four-year period.
Western senators have introduced two bills this session aimed at improving forestlands through increased investment and a return to more frequent use of prescribed burning as a management tool. But forest scientists and forestland advocates say the benefits would reach across the country.
