The sites targeted for spending in 2023 cover much of Southern California, the Klamath River Basin on the Oregon-California border, San Carlos Apache Reservation lands in Arizona and the Wasatch area of northern Utah.
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration on Thursday will announce $930 million forin 10 western states by clearing trees and underbrush from national forests, as officials struggle to contain destructive infernos that are being made worse by climate change.
The work is projected to cost up to $50 billion. Last year’s climate and infrastructure bills combined directed about $5 billion to the effort.He added that fires on public lands will continue to threaten the West, after burning some 115,000 square miles over the past decade — an area larger than Arizona — and destroying about 80,000 houses and other structures, according to government statistics and the nonpartisan research group Headwaters Economics.in Paradise, Calif.
Critics of the administration's strategy say it remains overly focused on stopping fires — a near-impossible goal — with not enough money going to communities and populations at risk, including the elderly and people with medical conditions or disabilities. Warming temperatures have dried out the region's landscape and driven insect outbreaks that have killed millions of trees — ideal conditions for massive wildfires.
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