As more dangerous wildfires threaten Southern California, lawmakers say reforms to forest management are desperately needed, and the country cannot wait any longer.

The House passed the Fix Our Forests Act along bipartisan lines Thursday as a response to the devastating wildfires in California ... Scott Peters (D-CA) and Bruce Westerman (R-AR), passed 279-141 ...

A forest management bill is slated for House floor debate this week. Other wildfire bills have been introduced in the Senate.

Some Republican leaders insist that before California can get disaster aid, there will be conditions attached.

A bill to speed forest-thinning on federal lands is poised to pass the House later this week. Another forest-related bill passed easily Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR)– As more dangerous wildfires threaten Southern California ... what we’re doing is not working,” said Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.). Westerman sponsored the Fix Our ...

Harder helped introduce the Fix Our Forests Act with House Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman (AR-04) and a bipartisan coalition of more than 50 Members. Watch Harder’s speech on the House floor celebrating passage of this legislation here. Source: Congressman Josh Harder

California Democrats blocked a Republican amendment to add $1 billion in wildfire prevention funding to the state's $2.5 billion wildfire recovery bill during a simple procedural

There have also been some discussions of tying “forestry management” to a bipartisan disaster aid push, but House Natural Resources Committee Chair and bill sponsor Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.)

sponsored by House Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.). Other Democrats, including Natural Resources ranking member Jared Huffman, also of California ...

Reps. Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., and Scott Peters, D-Calif., re-introduced the bill last week. Westerman, of Hot Springs, serves as chair of the House Natural Resources Committee and remains the ...

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