华盛顿 - 当今发布的政府问责办公室(高)报告表明,联邦机构需要更加重视野火后恢复和恢复森林。
根据该报告,由森林和森林健康的资源小组委员会要求,“荒地火灾有时会留下威胁威胁人类安全,财产和生态系统的烧毁景观。在陡峭地形的区域,火灾后暴雨可能导致埋葬房屋,摧毁道路和堵塞流的泥石。“
高地建议土地管理局(BLM)和美国森林服务在追踪和报告他们正在恢复森林的程度方面做得更好。
“H.R.4200,森林应急恢复和研究法(FERRA),将极大地帮助森林服务和BLM基金需要恢复,重新造林和研究。本报告进一步突出了家庭,需要在森林和森林卫生主席Greg Walden(R-Ote)上的广泛规模上查看这些问题。
“I’m heartened that Senator Mike Crapo is holding a hearing on my bill this week, and hopeful that the Senate will be able to move FERRA this year in time to give the agencies the tool they need to quickly treat forests that have burned this summer.”
该报告特别确定了森林服务,特别是“没有关于如何识别,优先考虑和资金后康复和恢复工作的国家指导,并建议该机构在恢复技术方面做得更多。
One example given by the GAO was the Bitterroot National Forest in southwest Montana and Idaho, where significant rehabilitation work was still needed on much of the 300,000 acres burned in 2000. The report’s findings are consistent with another GAO report (April 2005) that revealed the Forest Service to have a million acre reforestation backlog, primarily due to inaction after wildfires.
H.R. 4200在5月份通过了强大的两党支持。












