Posted on 09/07/2001 8:13:14 PM PDT by Trailer Trash
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:55:25 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The U.S. Forest Service spends about $10 million a year in California studying fire. So far this year the agency has spent $140 million putting out fires in the state. By the time the current 12,000-acre blaze burns out in two American River canyons, it will have cost more than Congress annually budgets to manage the 849,000-acre Tahoe National Forest.
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