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Forest Service is using threat of wildfires to meet timber targets, documents show
The year 2015 marked a turning point for the U.S. Forest Service. For the first time in its history, the agency spent more than 50% of its budget on wildfire management, according to an agency report from that year. The burden of dealing with the wildfire …