{"id":3441,"date":"2020-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wyden-merkley-press-forest-service-on-wildfire-season-plans-amid-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:06:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:06:47","slug":"wyden-merkley-press-forest-service-on-wildfire-season-plans-amid-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wyden-merkley-press-forest-service-on-wildfire-season-plans-amid-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyden, Merkley, Press Forest Service on Wildfire Season Plans Amid Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden?and Jeff&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">merkley<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, along wi<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th?nine Western Democrats,&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;sought?answers<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;yesterday<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;on the?planning efforts of the U.S. Forest Service?to protect communities and firefighters heading into?the upcoming 2020 wildfire season amid the COVID-19 crisis.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&ldquo;The impacts of the novel&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">coronavirus<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;pandemic (COVID-19), combined with high levels of drought throughout the West, will create unprecedented&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">wildland<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;firefighting challenges and may hurt numerous rural areas across the country, making the 2020 wildfire season potentially one of the most threatening seasons to date,&rdquo;?the senators wrote. &ldquo;Beyond the basic need to ensure the protection of communities, critical infrastructure, and firefighter safety, we recognize that the COVID-19 pandemic is placing unprecedented demands upon agencies that provide essential public services.&rdquo;?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The senators requested answers on Forest Service plans to:?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"?\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">coordinate with?the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),?the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and state and local health departments to ensure communities impacted by wildfire smoke have access to health care and related supports;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"?\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mantener las operaciones centrales, al tiempo que limita la exposici\u00f3n y la transmisi\u00f3n del virus a los empleados de la agencia y al personal que no pertenece a la agencia;<\/span>&nbsp;<span data-contrast=\"auto\">continuar planificando e implementando actividades de gesti\u00f3n forestal y reducci\u00f3n de combustibles peligrosos para reducir el riesgo de incendios forestales catastr\u00f3ficos, al tiempo que previene la propagaci\u00f3n de COVID-19; y m\u00e1s.&nbsp;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Wyden and&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">merkley<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">?were joined by U.S. Sens.?<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kyrsten<\/span>&nbsp;<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sinema<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, D-Ariz., Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Patty Murray, D-Wash., Catherine Cortez&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Masto<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, D-Nev., Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Michael&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Bennet<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, D-Colo., and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., in a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/download\/043020-wyden-led-wildfire-covid-letter\">?letter<\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">?to U.S. Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A full copy of the letter can be found?<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/download\/043020-wyden-led-wildfire-covid-letter\">aqu\u00ed<\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/woodstocks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden?and Jeff&nbsp;Merkley, along with?nine Western Democrats,&nbsp;&nbsp;sought?answers&nbsp;yesterday&nbsp;on the?planning efforts of the U.S. Forest Service?to protect communities and firefighters heading into?the upcoming 2020 wildfire season amid the COVID-19 crisis.&nbsp; &ldquo;The impacts of the novel&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic (COVID-19), combined with high levels of drought throughout the West, will create unprecedented&nbsp;wildland&nbsp;firefighting challenges and may hurt numerous rural areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wyden, Merkley, Press Forest Service on Wildfire Season Plans Amid Covid-19 - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wyden-merkley-press-forest-service-on-wildfire-season-plans-amid-covid-19\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wyden, Merkley, Press Forest Service on Wildfire Season Plans Amid Covid-19 - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"U.S. Sens. 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