Letters: Bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act is good start for fire safety

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Re: “Forest plan favors industry over nature” (Page A6, Nov. 25).

Jennifer Normoyle states that the Fix Our Forests Act prioritizes profits for timber industry executives over genuine forest protection.

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I disagree. The FOFA helps America increase our resilience to catastrophic wildfires, restore forest health and build fire-safety defenses for communities in high-risk areas. It’s a good bipartisan start (rare these days!) to protecting forests so trees can continue their important work pulling climate pollution out of the atmosphere.

In the U.S., the annual area burned by wildfires has more than doubled over the past 30 years. In California alone, acreage burned by wildfires every year ha