Colorado lawmakers call for U.S. Forest Service to ‘accelerate’ wildfire mitigation projects amid historically poor snowpack

Colorado lawmakers call for U.S. Forest Service to ‘accelerate’ wildfire mitigation projects amid historically poor snowpack

Colorado’s Democratic members of Congress are calling on the U.S. Forest Service to prioritize wildfire mitigation efforts as the West faces a historically low snowpack that is raising concerns about wildfire risk this summer. U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and his colleagues sent a letter to Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz on March 4, noting that Colorado’s snowpack is roughly 60% of median, its lowest level in decades. “Snowpack conditions in the R…