Healthy Forests Initiative
The President's Proposed Wildfire Prevention Strategy
The American people, their property, and our environment, particularly the forests and rangelands of the west, are threatened by catastrophic fires and environmental degradation. Hundreds of millions of trees and invaluable habitat are destroyed each year by these severe wildfires. These unnaturally extreme fires are caused by a crisis of deteriorating forest and rangeland health, the result of a century of well-intentioned but misguided land management. Renewed efforts to restore our public lands to healthy conditions are needed. Effects of Catastrophic Fires This fire season is already one of the worst in modern history. Already more than 5.9 million acres…
