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  • H.R. 178 is a proposed law that instructs the Secretary of Agriculture to actively combat wildfires on National Forest System lands using all available resources, with the goal of extinguishing fires within 24 hours of detection. The bill outlines that only prescribed fires...

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    H.R. 178 is a plan that asks the person in charge of taking care of big forests to stop wildfires as quickly as possible, using all tools they have. It also talks about using small, controlled fires to help the environment, but these have to be done carefully by the rules.