Trump Blocks Forest Raking Contracts

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Trump administration policy is slowing the very fire prevention work he endorsed, critics say

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President Trump has insisted that “raking” of the forests and other fuel reduction measures would help prevent wildfires from devastating the West .

But early actions by his administration have frozen one of the key programs to complete that sort of work.

The administration’s block on some Bureau of Land Management contracts comes at the same time that it has frozen most federal government hiring.

A pair of firefighter unions and dozens of Democrats in Congress have condemned the actions.

One firm doing such work in Northern California , Oregon and Idaho told the Associated Press it had stopped work funded by the Biden legislation and laid off 15 full-time employees.

The California senators laid out the case for the work in their letter.

Trump has blamed California leaders for the devastating wildfires.

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