Wildfire debate sweeps through congress
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29/04/2003
The House Resources Committee approved a wildfire plan today that supporters say will return forest management to people who know the forests and reduce the threat of wildfires. Democrats on the committee blasted the bill as a timber industry giveaway and said it will do little to contain the wildfire threat. "We are not going to solve this problem in the next three generations at the rate we are going," said Washington Representative Jay Inslee, a Democrat.