1) Katie Hoover penned this 18 February 2021 CRS Report: 'Wildfire ManagementFunding - FY2021Appropriations'
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service (FS) and the Department of the Interior (DOI) are responsible for wildfire response and management across the federal lands within their respective jurisdictions. Both FS and DOI generally receive annual discretionary appropriations for wildfire management activities through Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations laws. Wildfire management funding for DOI is provided to the department-level Office of Wildland Fire.
Wildfire management appropriations fluctuate annually but rose markedly after FY2000 (see Figure 1). A significant portion of the annual fluctuations and overall increase in funding is related to fire suppression costs, which vary considerably and may be high even during years of relatively mild wildfire activity. For more information, see CRS Report R46583, Federal Wildfire Management: Ten-Year Funding Trends and Issues (FY2011-FY2020).
For FY2020, Congress appropriated a total of $6.105 billion in discretionary appropriations for wildfire purposes for FS and DOI (see Table 1)
2) Katie Hoover also penned this 18 February 2021 CRS Repor: 'Forest Service - FY2021 Appropriations'
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The Forest Service (FS) is responsible for managing 193 million acres of land in the National Forest System (NFS); conducting forestry research; and providing assistance to state, local, private, and international forest owners. FS is an agency within the Department of Agriculture, but it receives discretionary appropriations through the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.
Budget Request
The Trump Administration requested $5.345 billion in FY2021 discretionary appropriations for FS, not including the wildfire adjustment. This would have been a decrease of $138.6 million (-3%) from the regular-enacted appropriations for FY2020 and a decrease of $209.4 million (-4%) from the FY2020 total enacted figure. The Trump Administration also requested an additional $2.040 billion through the wildfire adjustment, for a total request of $7.385 billion. The request reflected increases for some FS accounts and decreases for others, including no funding for one account (see Table 1).
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