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July 22, 2019

Plan to slow Western wildfires would clear strips of land

  • Wildfire experts say the federal program wouldn't help in the most extreme fires, which can jump these strips of land.
    • By BRADY McCOMBS
    Associated Press

    SALT LAKE CITY — The Trump administration is proposing an ambitious plan to slow Western wildfires by bulldozing, mowing or revegetating large swaths of land along 11,000 miles of terrain in the West.

    The plan that was announced this summer and presented at public open houses, including one in Salt Lake City this week, would create strips of land known “fuel breaks” on about 1,000 square miles of land managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in an area known as the Great Basin in parts of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada and Utah.


     
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