FRESNO (KMJ) – A bipartisan pair of senators including Dianne Feinstein, are getting together to combat wildfires.
Senator Dianne Feinstein is joining Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana to introduce legislation to protect communities from devastating wildfires like the one that killed 85 in the Northern California town of Paradise last year.
They told the Associated Press they are working with US Forest Service officials on finalizing the bill’s text and they plan to introduce it after the senate’s August recess.
They say the bill will expedite logging and other preventive forest fire projects near roads, trails and transmission lines, where wildfires are more likely to start up.
The bill is also aimed at slowing or stopping lawsuits that block logging projects on federal land.
