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Pearce wrong about Little Bear firefighting efforts | NMPolitics.net

By Ellen Wedum ? 7/03/12, 9:57 am ? Commentary

Ellen Wedum

If Congressman Pearce thinks that the U.S. Forest Service should be able to respond to fires faster than on foot, he and his fellow Republicans should stop cutting the Forest Service budget.

There’s a lot of misinformation being spread about the initial efforts to contain the Little Bear fire. I have pieced this account together mostly from the online log available on the USFS website.

“Monitoring” is a totally inadequate term to describe the efforts that were made to contain the fire during the first five days.

Pearce wrong about Little Bear firefighting efforts | NMPolitics.net