Testimony

Arizona State Forester Vicki Christiansen testified on behalf of NASF before a House Appropriations subcommittee this week on options for solving the impacts of runaway fire suppression costs on the Forest Service and Department of the Interior budgets. The discussion explored the recently passed FLAME Act as well as the trend of "fire borrowing" that [read more]

From the Council of Western State Foresters: In a hearing this morning by the House Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy and Research, Butch Blazer, New Mexico State Forester, gave testimony on the western impacts of the 2007 Energy Bill, with particular focus on woody bioenergy opportunities and failings with the new Renewable [read more]

NASF Vice President and Kentucky State Forester Leah MacSwords was in Washington today to testify before the House Natural Resources Committee regarding the Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act and the Emergency Wildland Fire Response Act.