WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan issued the following press release:
Amid the Trump Administration's failure (https://www.notus.org/climate-environment/trump-forest-service-behind-wildfire-prevention) to properly engage in forest management and wildfire prevention - including slowing down the U.S. Forest Service's rate of prescribed burns, fuel treatments, and other fire-prevention work - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, sent a letter calling on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee leadership to include additional funding to suppor...