House Hearing to Consider Wildfire, Public Lands Bills

A House Natural Resources subcommittee this week will consider a bill aimed at preventing power lines from causing wildfires.

Bill HR 6012, introduced by Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.), would authorize the Forest Service to permit the cutting of trees around power lines on national forest lands without conducting a timber sale.

“Our bill is a no-brainer for Western states that have seen electrical equipment and dry, dead trees combine to create devastating wildfires in recent years,” Carbajal said of the “Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act of 2023.”

Other bills on the agenda are: