华盛顿 - 政府问责办公室（GAO）今天发布的报告显示，联邦机构需要更加重视野火后恢复和修复森林。
根据资源小组委员会对森林和森林健康的要求，“荒野大火有时会留下威胁人类安全，财产和生态系统的燃烧景观。在陡峭的地形地区，火后暴风雨会导致泥石流掩埋房屋，破坏道路和堵塞的溪流。”
The GAO recommends that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the United States Forest Service do a much better job at tracking and reporting the extent to which they are restoring forests.
“ H.R.4200，《森林紧急恢复与研究法》（Ferra）将极大地帮助森林服务局和BLM资助急需的修复，造林和研究。这份报告进一步抨击家，需要大规模研究这些问题。
“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.”
该报告尤其确定了森林服务局“没有关于如何确定，优先级和资助火灾后康复和恢复工作的国家指导”，并建议这些机构在恢复技术方面进行更多研究。
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月的两党支持下通过了房屋。
