![]() ![]() President Trump has been critical of California’s fire management, tweeting on Jan. 14 story on the importance of “ fighting fire with fuel clearance.” ![]() ( An estimate from the Senate Appropriations Committee projected that 80 percent of the NFS’s workforce, of 28,800 people, would be furloughed.) The agency’s home page did display a Dec. There are also concerns that areas where fire season starts earlier - in the Southeast and Southwest - could face greater than usual dangers, putting the potential trouble spots in areas ranging from Redwoods National Forest in Northern California to the pine forests of Florida.įederal agencies manage 19 million acres of forest in California, but due to the shutdown no one at the National Forest Service was available to relay the exact number of employees furloughed nor the numbers of acres that weren’t being cleared due to the shutdown. November’s Camp Fire was the deadliest in the state’s history, killing 86 people and destroying 14,000 homes. ![]() 2018 was one of the worst ever for California wildfires, with nearly 2 million acres burned. ![]()
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