Forestry
September 25, 2024
Washington, D.C. — This week the House passed H.R. 8790, the Fix Our Forests Act, a strongly bipartisan piece of legislation focused on improving forest management and reducing the threat of catastrophic wildfires.
Issues:Forestry
June 27, 2024
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Congressmen Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the Agriculture Subcommittee on Forestry, Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), Chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus, and Tom Tiffany (R-Wisc.), Chairman of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands, introduced a bill to block the Biden Administration’s misguided proposed plan to hinder forest management activities that protect old and mature growth.
Issues:Forestry
June 26, 2024
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) voted in support of H.R. 8790, the Fix Our Forests Act (FOFA), as it passed out of the House Natural Resources Committee on a bipartisan voice vote. It can now be sent to the House Floor for a full vote.
Issues:Forestry
March 14, 2024
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Representatives Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) and Gabe Vasquez (D-N. Mex.) introduced a bipartisan bill to direct the United States Forest Service to expand the use of proactive, targeted animal grazing in fuels management programs to reduce wildfire risk.
Issues:Forestry
January 17, 2024
(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Representatives Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) and Young Kim (CA-40) introduced the Restoring Our Unopened Trails for Enjoyment and Safety (ROUTES) Act (H.R. 6994) to prioritize, streamline, and improve maintenance of federal trails, roads, campgrounds, and recreation sites damaged by certain natural disasters.
Issues:Forestry
November 15, 2023
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed an amended version of Congressman Doug LaMalfa’s (R-CA) bill, H.R. 1586 - the Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act of 2023.
Issues:Forestry
September 28, 2023
(Washington, D.C.) – Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Dan Newhouse (WA-04) and Executive Vice Chair Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) released the following statements in response to recommendations by the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission in their report released yesterday.
Issues:Forestry
July 24, 2023
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) introduced the Fair Pay for Federal Firefighters Act. This bill will establish a new base pay rate scale, with the largest increases to base pay for the firefighters at the lowest end of the pay scale. This will bring them in line with the pay rates for State and private firefighters.
Issues:Forestry
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The health and productivity of national forests have never been at a more critical juncture – 129 million dead and dying trees statewide from drought and insect and disease epidemics. As a result of decades of aggressive fire suppression and hands-off management practices, our forests have become overgrown and mismanaged to the point of becoming virtual tinderboxes...
July 29, 2022
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R – Richvale) voted against the Democrats’ “Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act”. Instead of green-lighting proven wildfire prevention activities such as landscape scale thinning and responsible harvesting, this bill creates more red tape and duplicative processes that will bog down existing Forest Service work. This bill claims to increase wildland firefighter pay, when in fact all crewmembers already earn above the proposed minimum pay, and it excludes nearly 40% of the federal wildland firefighting workforce from the “new benefits” promised in the legislation. This bill fails to address the root causes of catastrophic wildfires or implement aggressive landscape management practices, instead forces the Forest Service spend years creating a new 10-year strategy to confront wildfires - only six months after the agency completed its planning to implement a new 10-year strategy.