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Eye On Boise archive for May 24, 2016

TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell (U.S. Dept. of Interior /  Tami Heilemann)

Jewell: Making landscapes more resilient to fire 

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says the latest $10 million federal investment into the “Wildland Fire Resilient Landscapes Program,” which she announced during a visit to Idaho today, will make critical landscapes across the country more resilient to the impacts of wildfire and climate change....

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Interior Secretary Sally Jewell tours the Blackstock Springs area, Tuesday May 24, 2016 where the Soda Mountain Fire in August of 2015 charred over 280,000 acres of public and private land along the Idaho-Oregon border. (AP/Idaho Statesman / Darin Oswald)

Feds announce $10 million for wildfire projects in 12 states

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Tuesday toured a massive wildfire rehabilitation effort in southwest Idaho that's part of the federal government's new wildfire strategy and then announced $10 million for projects in 12 states to reduce wildfire threats. The money is part of the Wildland Fire Resilient Landscapes Program intended to restore...

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