It will provide additional tools to federal agencies. It will help these agencies treat more acres, sell more timber, and remove the red tape that has hindered forest management projects for far too long. The Wildfire Prevention act will increase the pace and the scale of forest treatments, improve data transparency as well as accountability. It will reduce wildfire hazards through mechanical thinning, prescribed fire utility line vegetation work hazard, tree removal, and grazing. It is essentially a tool for wildfire prevention, and it streamlines many current practices. (01:02–01:11)
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Asserts that the Wildfire Prevention Act will enhance forest treatment pace, scale, data transparency, and accountability.
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