The Forest Service is overstating its wildfire prevention progress to Congress despite decades of warnings not to

NBC News reported on its investigation which found that, throughout the country, the U.S. Forest Service has falsified the number of acres treated to reduce the wildfire danger, in some cases multiplying the actual acreage treated two-to-six-fold.

The Forest Service is overstating its wildfire prevention progress to Congress despite decades of warnings not to

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