{"id":17682,"date":"2017-06-29T05:04:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T11:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=17682"},"modified":"2017-06-29T05:13:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T11:13:10","slug":"as-wildfires-rage-in-west-dc-lawmakers-fight-over-forest-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/as-wildfires-rage-in-west-dc-lawmakers-fight-over-forest-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"As wildfires rage in West, DC lawmakers fight over forest policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"610\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<blockquote class=\"repubhubembed\">\n<p class=\"rhexcerpt\">WASHINGTON \u2014 With wildfire season raging in western states, Congress is embroiled in a battle over how best to fight the fires. Many Republicans want to help prevent and fight wildfires by giving the agencies that manage the federal forests more money and greater ability to thin out the forests. Most Democrats, as well as environmental&hellip;<!--more--><\/p>\n<style scoped>.repubhubembed{display:none;}<\/style>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"rhembed\" src=\"\/\/static.icopyright.net\/user\/view.act?p=MTM3ODY=&#038;c=NDAxMzUwMTY=&#038;fuid=MjU2NTY5NjM=&#038;s=repubhub&#038;showDate=false\" height=\"1500\" style=\"width:100%;border:0;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\"><\/iframe><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.icopyright.net\/user\/js\/rh.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- TO HIDE THE DATE, change \"showDate=true\" to \"false\" --> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 With wildfire season raging in western states, Congress is embroiled in a battle over how best to fight the fires. Many Republicans want to help prevent and fight wildfires by giving the agencies that manage the federal forests more money and greater ability to thin out the forests. Most Democrats, as well as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/as-wildfires-rage-in-west-dc-lawmakers-fight-over-forest-policy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As wildfires rage in West, DC lawmakers fight over forest policy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[786,442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17683,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682\/revisions\/17683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}