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Feds announce $10 million for wildfire projects in 12 states

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)
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)
Jewell, at Soda Fire site

Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: MARSING, Idaho (AP) — 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 public lands.

Recipients include: Southern Utah, which will receive $3.5 million to improve habitat for greater sage grouse; About $1 million to protect habitat for bi-state sage grouse on the Nevada-California border; Another $1 million in Colorado and Utah to improve Gunnison sage grouse habitat; and the Santa Clara Pueblo area in New Mexico will receive $800,000 to protect cliff dwellings and other cultural sites.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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