Utah congressman calls wildfire budget plan 'missed opportunity'
WASHINGTON — Last week's spending bill includes a bipartisan plan to create a wildfire disaster fund to help combat increasingly severe wildfires that have devastated the West in recent years.The bill sets aside more than $20 billion over 10 years to allow the Forest Service and other federal agencies end a practice of raiding nonfire-related accounts to pay for wildfire costs, which approached $3 billion last year.But Utah Congressman Rob Bishop slammed the wildfire measure as a missed op
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