r/Wildfire • u/smokejumperbro USFS • Feb 06 '25

News (General) Sens. Padilla, Sheehy propose new wildfire agency

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2025/sens-padilla-sheehy-propose-new-wildfire-agency

Here we go folks

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u/aqutedge Feb 06 '25

Good news? Bad news? What are people’s thoughts on this

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u/Responsible_Bill_513 Feb 06 '25

Two different missions on two different ownership of lands.

Either fully dissolve the USFS or don't.

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u/ChampionTree Feb 06 '25

What… why USFS be dissolved?? It’s a lot more than just a firefighting agency.

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u/Responsible_Bill_513 Feb 07 '25

56% is the current estimate of the fire budget. Pull the fire budget out of all the forests and they will collapse. The creation of a Wildland fire service will pull all that cash that supports fleet, dispatch, nepa for burning, salaries that are saved from p-codes, I could go on and on.