The US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region will receive approximately $85-million to recover and restore national forests, watersheds, and communities impacted by 2020 and 2021 wildfires. That announcement was made Tuesday by the Forest Service Region in Denver.
The funding is a share of the $1.36 billion of supplemental appropriations provided to the Forest Service through the Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act of 2021.
The funding is a share of the $1.36 billion of supplemental appropriations provided to the Forest Service through the Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act of 2021.
The act provided a total of $28.6 billion in new supplemental appropriations for disaster relief recovery to federal agencies.
Approximately $85 million in disaster funding will be allocated to national forests and grasslands in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, with the majority going to Colorado and Wyoming.
Officials say Wyoming itself will get about $6 million which will help to restore part of the Medicine-Bow National Forest affected by the 2020 Mullen fire which burned some 177,000 acres.
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