Federal wildland fire programs are being consolidated into a new U.S. Wildland Fire Service at the Interior Department. Thousands of Interior firefighters were moved into it in February without Congress authorizing or funding the change, and a plan to pull in the Forest Service’s far larger firefighting force is still on the table, with a feasibility study due in February 2027. Meanwhile a full-suppression policy tells crews to attack every new fire. Firefighters and fire ecologists warn that chasing every remote fire with stretched crews puts lives at risk and doesn’t help the land. Experienced taskforce leaders and division supervisors can’t be improvised. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to halt the restructuring of federal wildland fire programs, restore full staffing at the Forest Service and the Interior Department, and let local fire managers decide when a remote fire is safer left to burn.
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Federal wildland fire programs are being consolidated into a new U.S. Wildland Fire Service at the Interior Department. Thousands of Interior firefighters were moved into it in February without Congress authorizing or funding the change, and a plan to pull in the Forest Service’s far larger firefighting force is still on the table, with a feasibility study due in February 2027. Meanwhile a full-suppression policy tells crews to attack every new fire. Firefighters and fire ecologists warn that chasing every remote fire with stretched crews puts lives at risk and doesn’t help the land. Experienced taskforce leaders and division supervisors can’t be improvised. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to halt the restructuring of federal wildland fire programs, restore full staffing at the Forest Service and the Interior Department, and let local fire managers decide when a remote fire is safer left to burn.
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