‘Stonewalling’: Forest Service mum on firings during wildfire briefing for congressional staff
Smoke from the Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon fire is visible from Mora, N.M. on May 22, 2022. (Photo courtesy Santa Fe National Forest)
An annual wildfire briefing last week between staffers for Southwestern members of Congress and U.S. Forest Service officials was unusual for two reasons, according to a congressional aide in attendance.
First, the private briefing happened about a month earlier than is typical, a sign of the acute risk of wildfires this season in New Mexico and Arizona amid years of climate change-caused drought and especially low snowpack this spring.
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