WILDFIRE NEWS OF THE DAY - 050214

United States

(1) Wildfire NOTD subscriber Ann Camp, a Forestry Scientist at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, weighed in on the impact environmentalists' efforts to block forest thinning have had on worsening wildfires
Fox's Dana Perino blames environmentalists for mega-wildfires

(2) The Undersecretary of Agriculture estimated that USFS and DOI are going to spend $1.8 billion fighting wildfires this year, which is $470 million more than has been budgeted for 2014
Federal government projects spending $1.8 billion on wildfires this year

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