Feds send $930 million to curb ‘crisis’ of U.S. West wildfires

Utah’s Wasatch area is among the sites chosen to receive funding.

(Brittany Peterson | AP file photo) A member of the Mile High Youth Corps walks near a smoldering pile of tree debris during a controlled burn with the U.S. Forest Service in Hatch Gulch Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022, near Deckers, Colo. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the forest service conducted burns, tree thinning and other work to reduce wildfire risks across 5,000 square miles last year.

Feds send $930 million to curb ‘crisis’ of U.S. West wildfires

Utah’s Wasatch area is among the sites chosen to receive funding.

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