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The $20,000 salary increase for wildland firefighters in the 2021 infrastructure law could be coming to an end next week if Congress doesn’t act. The infrastructure law included $600 million to boost salaries for the nearly 11,200 wildland firefighters for two years, giving the Interior Department or Forest Service employees a raise of either $20,000 each or 50% of their base salary. Federal wildland firefighters earn as little as $15 per hour, with entry level positions earning just less t...
Oregon Capital Chronicle Plans for commercial logging of old-growth forests on federal lands have moved forward this year, despite an executive order signed on Earth Day by President Joe Biden, according to a report from environmental groups. The old-growth woodlands are particularly useful in fighting climate change by absorbing carbon, a goal for the Biden administration. The Climate Forests Coalition, a group of dozens of environmental organizations including Environment America, the...
